especially desirable in rural areas, given the shortage of mental health providers and the reluctance of rural residents to seek specialty care because of stigma associated with mental illness and concerns about confidentiality. The recent growth of managed care and the ...
Those numbers appear to beeven higher in primary care. Even before the pandemic, 70% of primary care providers and 89% of primary care residentsreported feelings of burnout. "Everyone in health care feels overworked," saidGregg Coodley, a primary care physician in Portland, Oregon, and author...
Capitation payment system proved to be inefficient, in the studied pandemic period, in terms of the services provided by primary health care service providers to patients and the funds paid to them, in exchange, by the government entities. Keywords: COVID-19; primary health care; performance; ...