Community Health Services - Organization & administration
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Enhancing the medical homes model for children with asthma.

30 Oct 2009 BACKGROUND: Medical Home is an evolving concept of patient-centered care yet little information is available on its effect on health care expenditures for children. OBJECTIVES: To quantify differences in patterns of care and costs to the North ... Read more...

Estimation of potential effects of improved community-based drug provision, to augment health-facility strengthening, on maternal mortality due to post-partum haemorrhage and sepsis in sub-Saharan Africa: an equity-effectiveness model.

21 Sep 2009 BACKGROUND: Maternal mortality in Africa has changed little since 1990. We developed a mathematical model with the aim to assess whether improved community-based access to life-saving drugs, to augment a core programme of health-facility ... Read more...

Prenatal care disparities and the migrant farm worker community.

30 Aug 2009 The pregnant migrant farm worker faces many barriers to accessing healthcare in the United States due to poverty, language/literacy issues, transportation difficulties, and geographic isolation. The advanced practice nurse has the opportunity to ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Community Health Services - Organization & administration'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Enhancing the medical homes model for children with asthma. 30 Oct 2009
• The cooperative medical extension program: translation of medical best practices to practicing primary care providers. 29 Sep 2009
• Estimation of potential effects of improved community-based drug provision, to augment health-facility strengthening, on maternal mortality due to post-partum haemorrhage and sepsis in sub-Saharan Africa: an equity-effectiveness model. 21 Sep 2009
• Prenatal care disparities and the migrant farm worker community. 30 Aug 2009
• Wound care teams: redesigning community nursing services. 30 Aug 2009
• Models for integrating rehabilitation and primary care: a scoping study. 30 Aug 2009
• Understanding the importance of Communities That Care. 30 Aug 2009
• Results of a type 2 translational research trial to prevent adolescent drug use and delinquency: a test of Communities That Care. 30 Aug 2009
• Improving health among American Indians through environmentally-focused nutrition interventions. 30 Aug 2009
• President Obama's health plan and community-based prevention. 18 Aug 2009
• The EPICS Trial: Enabling Parents to Increase Child Survival through the introduction of community-based health interventions in rural Guinea Bissau. Aug 2009
• Do rural hospitals lag behind urban hospitals in addressing community health needs? An analysis of recent trends in US community hospitals. 30 Jul 2009
• The STTEP: a Model for musculoskeletal health care in marginalized communities. 30 Jul 2009
• Health system barriers affecting the implementation of collaborative TB-HIV services in Uganda. 30 Jul 2009
• North Carolina's ABCD program: using community care networks to improve the delivery of childhood developmental screening and referral to early intervention services. 30 Jul 2009
• Community health workers and environmental interventions for children with asthma: a systematic review. 30 Jul 2009
• Recommended community strategies and measurements to prevent obesity in the United States. 22 Jul 2009
• Care in the country: a historical case study of long-term sustainability in 4 rural health centers. 14 Jul 2009
• A national survey of prevalence of cardiopulmonary resuscitation training and knowledge of the emergency number in Ireland. 5 Jul 2009
• Sharing skills to improve care. 29 Jun 2009

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Technical information about 'Community Health Services'

Definition: Diagnostic, therapeutic and preventive health services provided for individuals in the community.

Descriptor UI: D003153

Alternative terms: Community Health Services; Services, Community Health; Health Services, Community; Community Health Service; Health Service, Community; Service, Community Health; Community Health Care; Care, Community Health; Health Care, Community; Community Healthcare; Community Healthcares; Healthcare, Community; Healthcares, Community;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; methods; organization & administration; standards; supply & distribution; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: N02.421.143;

History Note: 67(65)

Technical Notes: IM; DF: COMMUNITY HEALTH SERV