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Quality Through Collaboration
Committee On The Future Of Rural Health Care; Board On Health Care Services; Institute Of Medicine; National Academy Of Sciences
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 ... Read more
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.
Table of Contents- 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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