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Article: Community health centers: health care as it could be.
- Article from:
- Journal of Law and Health
- Article date:
- March 22, 2004
- Author:
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INTRODUCTION
I. COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS
II. COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS AND NATIONAL HEALTH GOALS
III. GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION: TRAINING DOCTORS TO FILL NATIONAL
HEALTH CARE NEEDS
IV. CONCLUSION
INTRODUCTION
This Article explores the potential of community health centers (CHCs) to become a central component providing health care in America. It focuses on health centers as a proposed solution to the dual national problems of access to care and the shortage of primary care doctoring. It argues that CHCs have the capacity to address the problem of access to health services and to provide a vibrant model for the revival of primary care. Part ...