Primary Care Provider Shortage Proposal Assignment Paper

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Doctors are obliged to deliver primary care to members of the public who may be sick. They are fundamental in the delivery of such services to the public depending on the policies that guide their authority over which situations they should handle. The primary care physicians are licensed to practice medicine in internal medicine, family medicine and pediatrics. All their tasks are considered to be of little emergency since they can be treated using simple procedures. Additional services to the pubic include vaccinations and routine care of their patients through frequent check-ups. Their major role is being the basic advocates for health care in any nation. They dictate the parameters in which the health care that the people receive should receive. Despite their important role in the health care sector, their number is gradually reducing and it is said that by 2020, the shortage will be greater than 90,000 doctors. A shortage of doctors in the country will bring about a huge problem in the health care system. Primary care, being the most fundamental form of health care to the citizens of a country, should be available at all times. The policies governing it should therefore be strong. This paper sets out to explain the different problems that affect the delivery of primary health care to the citizens of a country.
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The AOA (American Osteopathic Association) is one of the largest primary care providers in the United States. It is responsible for training medical professionals who are later released to work in either the public or private sectors of the economy ADDIN CSL_CITATION { "citationItems" : [ { "id" : "ITEM-1", "itemData" : { "abstract" : "The Osteopathic Practice Standards comprise both the Standard of Proficiency and the Code of Practice for osteopaths. This document presents all the standards of conduct and competence required of osteopaths to promote patients\u2019 health and wellbeing and to protect them from harm. The Osteopathic Practice Standards play a central role in the requirements for osteopathic training and the achievement and retention of registration with the General Osteopathic Council. The document outlines the safe, competent and ethical practice of osteopathy.", "author" : [ { "dropping-particle" : "", "family" : "General Osteopathic Council", "given" : "", "non-dropping-particle" : "", "parse-names" : false, "suffix" : "" } ], "container-title" : "Osteopathic Practice Standards", "id" : "ITEM-1", "issue" : "September", "issued" : { "date-parts" : [ [ "2012" ] ] }, "page" : "1-32", "title" : "Osteopathic Practice Standards", "type" : "article-journal" }, "uris" : [ "/documents/?uuid=9db0903e-694b-4f28-803b-ceeeea4683d7" ] } ], "mendeley" : { "formattedCitation" : "(General Osteopathic Council, 2012)", "plainTextFormattedCitation" : "(General Osteopathic Council, 2012)", "previouslyFormattedCitation" : "(General Osteopathic Council, 2012)" }, "properties" : { "noteIndex" : 0 }, "schema" : "https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json" }(General Osteopathic Council, 2012). Over 70,000 osteopathic physicians are trained every year to be later recruited in various hospitals....