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Category: Disparities
Health Benefits of Primary Care
A study from 2007 quantifies the health benefits that primary care provides. For every extra primary care physician added over 4 lives can be saved. In the 1940s and 1950s more than 50 percent of all physicians in the United Continue Reading …
21st Century Medical Education
Medical education is at a crossroads. While the health care workforce requires rapid expansion to accommodate the aging Baby Boomers, medical schools are tasked with inculcating ever-expanding scientific knowledge in the same limited four-year timeframe allotted to physicians of generations Continue Reading …
Health care for Immigrants
Though some Americans may believe that immigrants are a burden by utilizing the health care system, research has shown that immigrants have less access to health insurance and use fewer health care resources than citizens. This study sought to further Continue Reading …
Retail Clinics Not Equitably Distributed
The authors of this study examined 930 retail clinics across the nation in order to plot their geographic location according to United States Census tracts. Eighteen states had no retail clinics and 17 had greater than 25 clinics. Florida, California, Continue Reading …