Primary Care, Public Health Sectors Seek to Collaborate to Boost Population Health

Historically, public health officials and primary care health professionals have worked largely in isolation from each other. As a result of an increasing emphasis on cost-effective, outcome-based health care, however, all of that is beginning to change. At all levels of health care -- from large governmental organizations to small community clinics -- members of the two disciplines are starting to look at opportunities to work together. "This is a transformative moment in health care," said Lloyd Michener, M.D., chair of community and family medicine at Duke University in Durham, N.C.
Source: AAFP Health of the Public - Category: Primary Care Source Type: news