Category: Advocacy

Advocacy

An Urgent Call to Bring an Affordable, Climate-Friendly Inhaler to the US

I have had the privilege of practicing primary care for over 20 years at a community health center in Chelsea, Mass. This vibrant city is the dignified home to ...

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Strategic Implementation of AI in Primary Care

Advances in artificial intelligence (AI), especially since ChatGPT first gained wide recognition in 2022, have led to a wide array of potential applications and ...

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Lessons from Steward and the Need for Primary Care Reform in Massachusetts

The Steward Health Care system collapse has raised alarm bells and activated a ...

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Standing for change: NASEM Forms Standing Committee for Primary Care

As a specialty that manages complex chronic conditions and preventive care, primary care has been shown to reduce cardiovascular, cancer, and respiratory mortality and

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Community-Driven Solutions for Health: Lessons from the Matahari Women Workers’ Center Healing Justice Initiative

“I just know I need to leave the job,” Bruna (whose name has been changed to protect privacy) said through the Zoom screen as she finished telling our group about the increased demands, stagnant ...

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Advancing Health Equity and Value-Based Care: A Mobile Approach

A major task of the U.S. health system is how to provide high-value care that is equitably accessible for the general populace. Health care is more costly in the U.S. than in

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The Role of Advocacy in Primary Care

Primary care physicians are uniquely positioned to go beyond the immediate needs of their patients. Everything from writing a prescription to examining the larger, more daunting socioeconomic and ...

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Air Pollution Is the New Radiation. It is Time to Act Like It.

In the not-so distant past, you may not have thought twice about your exposure to radiation. While Roentgen discovered the X-ray in 1895, it would not be until the early-mid 1900s that the general ...

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Relating Place, History, and Neighborhood Context to Mental Health: A Baltimore Case Study

Mental health is a

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