Title
Primary care in the usa and the peruvian experience in perspective
Other title
La atención primaria en los estados unidos y la experiencia peruana en perspectiva
Date Issued
01 January 2013
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Muench J.
Hoffman, Kim
Menendez Calderón, María Jose
Meenan R.T.
Publisher(s)
Instituto Nacional de Salud
Abstract
Due to a complex payment system, the health system of the United States is fragmented, expensive, and achieves the goal of improving the health of the entire population. Excessive health costs increase the budget deficit in the US. This situation makes to the government to have greater willingness to try new approaches in the delivery of health services. Is well know that the states that have a solid system of primary health care (PC), spent less money in diseases and have lower utilization of health services (reflected in fewer days of hospitalization). This is why the AP is spreading in the US making doctors, nurses and other providers to collaborate on new proposals for team-based care, coordinated and patient-oriented generating real benefits while controlling costs. The US experience with AP support evidence-based approach to propose, from a foreign perspective, strengthening the AP in Peru.
Start page
299
End page
302
Volume
30
Issue
2
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Salud pública, Salud ambiental
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84882691745
PubMed ID
Source
Revista Peruana de Medicina Experimental y Salud Publica
ISSN of the container
17264634
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
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