Improving access to health care through physician workforce reform: directions for the 21st century

Article Abstract:

Health care reform cannot succeed without consideration of the nature of the medical workforce. The Council on Graduate Medical Education (COGME) has identified several problems in the medical education system and in the composition and distribution of the medical workforce. A national plan should be established to ensure that the nation's needs for physicians will be met in the future. An additional component of this plan should include financial contributions to a graduate medical education pool. COGME recommends that the nation move toward a workforce composed of 50% general practice physicians. Other recommendations include eliminating the differences in the distribution of physicians, diversifying the composition of the physician population so that it more accurately reflects the nation's racial and ethnic diversity and setting residency programs to ensure that 50% of medical students become generalists. The medical education system is also in need of reforms such as working to ensure student diversity and emphasizing the biopsychosocial aspects of health care.

Medical care, Physicians, Medical professions, Social policy, Training, Health care reform, Council on Graduate Medical Education

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The weight of an ounce

Article Abstract:

The cost effectiveness of preventive medicine and the increasing cost of medical care suggests prevention should play a larger role in public health management. Preventive efforts of the past have successfully reduced the incidence of some illnesses, including heart disease and stroke, but have failed to reach large portions of the community, including minorities, the poor and the young. To reach these groups and improve the health of the public at large, comprehensive long-term strategies involving employers, care providers and government agencies are needed. The rise of managed care organizations and community providers provide an excellent source of the information so important to successful prevention programs. Now that information on the programs themselves is available, more cost-effective preventive strategies should be developed and implemented.

Editorial, Management, Practice, Public health, Preventive health services, Preventive medicine, Medicine, Preventive

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Natural and manmade disasters and mental health

Article Abstract:

The article discusses about the relationship between manmade disasters and mental health and strategies for better detection and prevention.

United States, Public affairs, Analysis, Evaluation, Mental health, Natural disasters, Violence

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