Journal of General Internal Medicine
Year: 2019
To date, efforts to reduce hospital readmissions have centered largely on hospitals. In a recently published environmental scan, we examined the literature focusing on primary care-based efforts to reduce readmissions. While rigorous studies on interventions arising from primary care are … Continue reading
Community Mental Health Journal
Year: 2023
Mental health and substance use disorders are prevalent among people experiencing homelessness. Street Medicine can reach unhoused people who face barriers to accessing healthcare in more traditional medical settings including shelter-based clinics. However, there is little guidance on best practices … Continue reading
Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine
Year: 2022
Introduction: Despite the Affordable Care Act’s insurance expansion, low-income Latinos are less likely to have a primary care provider compared with other racial/ethnic and income groups. We examined if community-based health care navigation could improve access to primary care in this … Continue reading
California Health Care Foundation
Year: 2023
Established in the early 1990s, street medicine is the provision of health care directly to people who are unsheltered in their own environment and has evolved from a fringe movement of health care providers to an organized area of medicine, … Continue reading