Publications
The Center exists in part to create original evidence and information that support and advance conversations around professionalism, value, and other health care issues.
READ about scientific publications, briefs, and reports emerging from the Center and its collaborators below.
Integrating primary care and public health to enhance response to a pandemic
- Andrew Bazemore
- Melina Taylor
- Karen Kinder
- Cristina Mannie
- Joe George
- Stefan Strydom
- Felicity Goodyear-Smith
Submitted on: June, 2021
A survey of PC stakeholders (clinicians, researchers, and policy-makers) from 111 countries revealed many of the challenges encountered when facing the pandemic without a coordinated effort between PC and PH functions. Participants’ responses to open-ended questions underscored how each of the key actions could have been strengthened in their country and are potential factors to why a strong PC system may not have contributed to reduced mortality.
New Podcast: Dr. Robert Phillips Discusses the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine’s Recent Report, ” Implementing High-Quality Primary Care”
- Robert L. Phillips Jr., MD, MSPH
- Dr. Bob Phillips
Submitted on: June, 2021
Among numerous other statistics, despite spending approximately twice what comparative countries spend on healthcare, the US has highest rates of preventable deaths. Even wealthy Americans are more likely to, for example, die during childbirth, from cancer and from heart attacks than those in 12 comparative countries. This is substantially due to the fact primary care in the US, as the National Academy of Medicine report states in its opening, is “slowly dying.” The report further notes despite the fact primary care’s value is beyond dispute, approximately 25% of Americans do not have a primary care physician and 80 million Americans live, per HRSA, in primary care health professions shortage areas. In turn, this is largely due to the fact only 5% of healthcare spending goes to primary care despite such visits accounting for 40% of all medical office visits. Translation: primary care physicians are substantially undercompensated that contributes to a growing shortage of primary care clinicians.
Ensuring Primary Care Diagnostic Quality in the Era of Telemedicine
- Joel Steven Willis, DO, PA, MA, MPhi
- Carl Tyler Jr., MD, MSc
- Gordon D. Schiff, MD
- Katherine Schreiner, BA
Submitted on: June, 2021
Telemedicine applications have been utilized for decades, most commonly in specific areas of medicine (e.g., dermatology, pathology, radiology) and in specific contexts, (e.g., rural or other under-resourced areas).
