Quality Through Collaboration
eBook - ePub

Quality Through Collaboration

The Future of Rural Health

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eBook - ePub

Quality Through Collaboration

The Future of Rural Health

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About this book

Building on the innovative Institute of Medicine reports To Err Is Human and Crossing the Quality Chasm, Quality Through Collaboration: The Future of Rural Health offers a strategy to address the quality challenges in rural communities.Rural America is a vital, diverse component of the American community, representing nearly 20 % of the population of the United States. Rural communities are heterogeneous and differ in population density, remoteness from urban areas, and the cultural norms of the regions of which they are a part. As a result, rural communities range in their demographics and environmental, economic, and social characteristics. These differences influence the magnitude and types of health problems these communities face.Quality Through Collaboration: The Future of Rural Health assesses the quality of health care in rural areas and provides a framework for core set of services and essential infrastructure to deliver those services to rural communities. The book recommends: Adopting an integrated approach to addressing both personal and population health needsEstablishing a stronger health care quality improvement support structure to assist rural health systems and professionalsEnhancing the human resource capacity of health care professionals in rural communities and expanding the preparedness of rural residents to actively engage in improving their health and health careAssuring that rural health care systems are financially stableInvesting in an information and communications technology infrastructureIt is critical that existing and new resources be deployed strategically, recognizing the need to improve both the quality of individual-level care and the health of rural communities and populations.

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Information

Publisher
National Academies Press
Year
2005
eBook ISBN
9780309133470
Edition
0
Topic
Medicine

Table of contents

  1. COVER PAGE
  2. THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES
  3. COMMITTEE ON THE FUTURE OF RURAL HEALTH CARE
  4. Reviewers
  5. Preface
  6. Foreword
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Contents
  9. Executive Summary
  10. 1 Introduction
  11. 2 An Integrated Approach to Improving Health and Health Care in Rural Communities
  12. 3 Quality Improvement Activities in Rural Areas
  13. 4 Human Resources
  14. 5 Finance
  15. 6 Rural Health Care in the Digital Age1
  16. Appendixes
  17. Index