Week 5 Discussion – Public Health and Primary Health Care Collaboration: This is a Public Health Question
Week 5 Discussion – Public Health and Primary Health Care Collaboration
Consider this statement from the assigned reading Practical Playbook
By joining forces to share and analyze data, public health and primary care can develop stronger strategies to improve neighborhoods and the individuals who live there.
Within the practice of health care delivery, physicians may be classified as primary, secondary or tertiary based on the severity of medical conditions. Is it important for primary health care providers (family medicine, internists, gynecologists, pediatricians) and public health to work more closely together? If you agree, how would you incentivize the integration of primary care and public health? What are some of the barriers? What are some success stories?
