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Unleashing Nurse Practitioners' Potential To Deliver Primary Care And Lead Teams
May 1, 2010 | Commentary
If primary care is the foundation of the future health care system in this country, and if access to primary care for all is to be ensured while containing or reducing costs of care,then nurse practitioners will be crucial to achieving these aims.
Moving Reform to the Bedside
April 7, 2010 | Commentary
The health care reform debate was dominated by seasoned special interest groups and politicians in nearly every public forum. As Cary Gross, M. D., co-director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Clinical Scholars Program at Yale and Erica ...
On the Cost of Inaction Around Reform
March 15, 2010 | Commentary
Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, RWJF president and CEO, delivered a speech to the National Governor's Association in Washington, D.C. on March 15, 2010.
The Need for Improved Surveillance of Occupational Disease and Injury
March 10, 2010 | Commentary
This commentary examines the history of occupational disease and injury surveillance. The authors discuss the early days of federal surveillance efforts, examine barriers to reporting, and assess the current state of federal and state oversight
Changing the Norms of Medicine and Health
March 4, 2010 | Commentary
Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, M.D., M.B.A., delivered the 2010 Alvin F. Poussaint, M.D., Visiting Lecture at Harvard Medical School.
Simplicity Sells
March 1, 2010 | Commentary
A wallet card with information on quitting smoking presents a simple strategy to address a vital public health concern. This article is part of a special issue on tobacco cessation in the March 2010 edition of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
Increasing Consumer Demand for Tobacco Treatments
March 1, 2010 | Commentary
In conjunction with other advances in treatments to address tobacco use and dependency, health professionals in clinical settings increasingly are talking to patients who smoke about quitting. Clinical systems, however, need to change to improve tobacco treatment implementation.
County Health Rankings
February 17, 2010 | Commentary
Public health, business, education and community leaders convene in Washington, D.C., to examine what communities can do to keep residents healthier.
Community-Based Participatory Research Contributions to Intervention Research
February 10, 2010 | Commentary
Community-based participatory research (CBPR) has emerged in the last decades as a transformative research paradigm that bridges the gap between science and practice through community engagement and social action to increase health equity. The authors of this study identify the barriers and challenges within the intervention and implementation of CBPR.
Replicating High-Quality Medical Organizations
February 10, 2010 | Commentary
Restructuring the U.S. health care delivery system to provide the kind of coordinated, patient-centered care that high-quality medical care organizations are now achieving will require new organizational arrangements, strong primary care and effective team performance.