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Women more likely to be screened if primary care is well-organized.(cancer)(Brief Article)
2002 APR 18 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Low-income, inner-city women - shown in previous studies to be less likely to get regular screenings for cancer and more likely to die from late-stage disease - tend to more closely follow screening recommendations if their primary health care provider provides comprehensive, well-organized services, according to research conducted at Georgetown University Medical Center. These findings were published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.
This study is the first to examine the impact of specific characteristics of primary care delivery on willingness to have cancer screening tests while also taking into account a variety of attitudinal, socioeconomic and insurance barriers to screening. It involved 1205 primarily low-income African-American women over the age of 40 living in Washington, DC. The women, randomly selected from low-income neighborhoods in the District of Columbia, completed a telephone survey lasting about 25 minutes. The researchers focused on whether the women followed screening recommendations for cervical, breast and colorectal cancers, because low-income African American women have been shown in other studies to die from these diseases at a disproportionate rate compared with women from other ethnic and economic groups, and because regular ...
- Defining primary care.
- Magazine article from: Healthcare Financial Management Clark, Cathy Sullivan January 1, 1995 700+ words
...large and appropriately distributed primary care physician networks. There is substantially...agreement, however, on the definition of primary care physician. This column explores three...approaches for defining the category of a primary care physicians. Each approach involves...
- Primary Care, LLC Becomes Provider for Secure Horizons, Tufts Health Plan For...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire November 6, 1996 700+ words
...NORWELL, Mass., Nov. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Primary Care, LLC, Massachusetts' largest primary care physician organization (PO), today signed...ever single signature contract between a primary care, physician-owned provider network and...
- Primary Care Professionals: Recent Supply Trends, Projections, and Valuation of...
- General Accounting Office Reports & Testimony March 1, 2008 700+ words
...Health Service Act goes toward primary care medicine and dentistry training...increase the total supply of primary care professionals, health care marketplace...signals suggest an undervaluing of primary care medicine, creating a concern...
- Measuring primary care practice performance within an integrated delivery...
- Magazine article from: Journal of Healthcare Management Stewart, Louis J. Wagner, Robert F. Greisler, David July 1, 2002 700+ words
...performance measurement system to plan and control primary care service delivery within an integrated delivery...examination through a case study of the WMG Primary Care Medicine Group, the primary care medical group practice of WellSpan Health...
- Primary Care Psychology.
- Magazine article from: Families, Systems & Health Gunn, William B., Jr. June 22, 2004 700+ words
Primary Care Psychology by Robert G. Frank, Susan...1037/1091-7527.22.2.240 Primary Care Psychology is a welcome addition to...between mental health practitioners and primary care health providers. Health care has divided...
- MedPAC: primary care is undervalued.(News)
- Magazine article from: Family Practice News Ault, Alicia April 1, 2008 700+ words
WASHINGTON -- Saying that primary care is undervalued, the Medicare...Congress increase payment for primary care and pilot test a medical home...Medicare fee schedule upward for primary care and to start a medical home pilot...
- PRIMARY CARE GETS A BOOST
- Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN) November 12, 1994 700+ words
...than 2 percent of the faculty are in primary care. It's no wonder then that in the...country - there exists a shortage of primary care physicians at a time in history when...the assistant dean of the school's primary care education department and the vice chairman...
- Commentary: primary care and health outcomes: a health services research...
- Magazine article from: Health Services Research Starfield, Barbara Shi, Leiyu December 1, 2007 700+ words
The contributions of primary care to improvements in many aspects...health systems based on strong primary care have better health at lower costs...initiatives directed at strengthening primary care, including increases in the supply...
