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:
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.
Table of Contents |
skim chapter | |
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Front Matter | i-xx | |
Executive Summary | 1-18 | |
1 Introduction | 19-29 | |
2 An Integrated Approach to Improving Health and Health Care in Rural Communities | 30-59 | |
3 Quality Improvement Activities in Rural Areas | 60-77 | |
4 Human Resources | 78-118 | |
5 Finance | 119-146 | |
6 Rural Health Care in the Digital Age | 147-190 | |
Appendix A Biographies of Committee Members | 191-199 | |
Appendix B Characteristics of Rural Populations | 200-219 | |
Appendix C The Rural Health Care Delivery System | 220-248 | |
Index | 249-268 |
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