Objective: The United States faces a health care provider shortage yearly in many areas of the country, but most of all the rural areas are most impacted. The aim of this paper is 2-fold: To understand the factors tha...Objective: The United States faces a health care provider shortage yearly in many areas of the country, but most of all the rural areas are most impacted. The aim of this paper is 2-fold: To understand the factors that drive a medical student’s specialty choice through a systematic review article and how government initiatives consider what is important to students, to understand how other clinicians can help close the gap in primary care in the United States and what policies or barriers prevent them from doing so. Methods: This paper looks at nationally collected data, as well as meta-analysis reviews on the topic to help the reader better understand the issue of health care provider shortages. Conclusion: We must change the way we look at primary care and rural medicine. Rather than investing money in avenues that yield little return on investment, we as a nation should strategically fund and advance the scope of practice for rural medicine to make it attractive and competitive for clinicians to pursue. Being in a large deficit of clinical providers in general in our country, we must try to find new pathways to grow coverage in rural areas before our health care system is no longer equitable.展开更多
Objective: This study looks to review different methods of lifestyle changing interventions, examine and compare them to determine usefulness, efficiency, and outcome in regard to future ventures to help control the r...Objective: This study looks to review different methods of lifestyle changing interventions, examine and compare them to determine usefulness, efficiency, and outcome in regard to future ventures to help control the rise of this type 2 diabetes. Methods: Three systematic reviews were found and compared based on efficacy and key differences in their approach to the ever-growing problem of type 2 diabetes. Outcomes and intervention styles of the studies were noted and critiqued based on their statistical significance. Conclusion: The first study revealed that multiple behavior change techniques (BCTs) correlate with a reduction in weight and HbA1c, especially when they work synergistically alongside one another. The second study spoke of how community intervention had an inclusive quality about it, which allowed for population variability to not affect implementation. It also showed that small incremental changes were best when trying to establish a change long-term across a large population. Finally, the third study revealed that, as the participant got closer to maintaining a good physical activity regiment, their self-efficacy also increased. The attributes of these studies give evidence that interventions that use multiple approaches are most effective when looking to improve physical activity and diet in Type 2 diabetics.展开更多
文摘Objective: The United States faces a health care provider shortage yearly in many areas of the country, but most of all the rural areas are most impacted. The aim of this paper is 2-fold: To understand the factors that drive a medical student’s specialty choice through a systematic review article and how government initiatives consider what is important to students, to understand how other clinicians can help close the gap in primary care in the United States and what policies or barriers prevent them from doing so. Methods: This paper looks at nationally collected data, as well as meta-analysis reviews on the topic to help the reader better understand the issue of health care provider shortages. Conclusion: We must change the way we look at primary care and rural medicine. Rather than investing money in avenues that yield little return on investment, we as a nation should strategically fund and advance the scope of practice for rural medicine to make it attractive and competitive for clinicians to pursue. Being in a large deficit of clinical providers in general in our country, we must try to find new pathways to grow coverage in rural areas before our health care system is no longer equitable.
文摘Objective: This study looks to review different methods of lifestyle changing interventions, examine and compare them to determine usefulness, efficiency, and outcome in regard to future ventures to help control the rise of this type 2 diabetes. Methods: Three systematic reviews were found and compared based on efficacy and key differences in their approach to the ever-growing problem of type 2 diabetes. Outcomes and intervention styles of the studies were noted and critiqued based on their statistical significance. Conclusion: The first study revealed that multiple behavior change techniques (BCTs) correlate with a reduction in weight and HbA1c, especially when they work synergistically alongside one another. The second study spoke of how community intervention had an inclusive quality about it, which allowed for population variability to not affect implementation. It also showed that small incremental changes were best when trying to establish a change long-term across a large population. Finally, the third study revealed that, as the participant got closer to maintaining a good physical activity regiment, their self-efficacy also increased. The attributes of these studies give evidence that interventions that use multiple approaches are most effective when looking to improve physical activity and diet in Type 2 diabetics.
