Quality Through Collaboration

Quality Through Collaboration

The Future of Rural Health

  • Editor: National Academies Press
  • ISBN: 9780309094399
  • eISBN Pdf: 9780309588775
  • eISBN Epub: 9780309133470
  • Lugar de publicación:  Estados Unidos
  • Año de publicación digital: 2005
  • Mes: Marzo
  • Páginas: 289
  • DDC: 614
  • Idioma: Ingles

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 needs
  • Establishing a stronger health care quality improvement support structure to assist rural health systems and professionals
  • Enhancing 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 care
  • Assuring that rural health care systems are financially stable
  • Investing in an information and communications technology infrastructure

It 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.

  • Cover
  • Front Matter
  • Executive Summary
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 An Integrated Approach to Improving Health and Health Care in Rural Communities
  • 3 Quality Improvement Activities in Rural Areas
  • 4 Human Resources
  • 5 Finance
  • 6 Rural Health Care in the Digital Age
  • Appendix A Biographies of Committee Members
  • Appendix B Characteristics of Rural Populations
  • Appendix C The Rural Health Care Delivery System
  • Index

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