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WASHINGTON Primary care needs an overhaul if it is going to work the way that it should in the U.S., according to a report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. High-quality primary care is the foundation of a high-functioning healthcare system and is critical for achieving healthcare s quadruple aim (enhancing patient experience, improving population health, reducing costs, and improving the healthcare team experience), noted the 449-page report. Yet, 25 years since the Institute of Medicine (IOM) report
Primary Care: America s Health in a New Era, this foundation remains weak and under-resourced, accounting for 35% of healthcare visits while receiving only about 5% of healthcare expenditures. Moreover, the foundation is crumbling: visits to primary care clinicians are declining, and the workforce pipeline is shrinking, with clinicians opting to specialize in more lucrative healthcare fields.
Public health advances top Merrill Goozner s wish list to Santa
Dear Santa,
You don’t hear from me very often because I’m old and I’m Jewish. But after 2020, I’m also a bit desperate. As Princess Leia said to Obi-Wan Kenobi: “You’re my only hope.”
Here’s my holiday wish list for 2021:
1. I want the global pharmaceutical industry to put public health ahead of profits by collaborating to produce enough doses of COVID-19 vaccines so that everyone who wants a vaccination can get it by midyear.
2. I want the World Health Organization (with the U.S. rejoined) to convene a Zoom meeting of all manufacturers and government leaders, and not let them off the call until they figure out how to make the vaccine free for all with adequate supply in every country.