Rural Health Services: Finding the Light at the End of the Tunnel

Healthcare policy

Stefan Grzybowski¹ 

关键词: Rural health services;    population catchments;    health service planning;    Clinical Quality improvement;    Continuous professional development;    monitoring clinical outcomes;   

DOI  :  10.12927/hcpol.2013.23207

学科分类：地球科学(综合)

来源: Longwoods Publishing Corp.

【 摘 要 】

Many rural communities across Canada are facing challenges to the sustainability of core emergency and acute care health services, primarily due to problems with medical and nursing staffing. Data related to service efficacy and effectiveness are not well organized. Most of Canada still relies on reporting by large geopolitical areas (local health areas) that do not always relate natural catchment population outcomes to community hospital services. Re-organizing rural health services' outcome reporting by the characteristics of geographically defined catchment populations would facilitate better planning, systemic quality improvement and stronger continuing professional development for health professionals. It may also serve to inform the transformation of core health services in larger communities.

【 授权许可】

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