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American Journal of Public Health, Vol 90, Issue 6 858-862, Copyright © 2000 by American Public Health Association

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Community, service, and policy strategies to improve health care access in the changing urban environment

DP Andrulis
State University of New York Health Science Center/Brooklyn, Department of Preventive Medicine and Community Health 11203, USA. dandrulis@netmail.hscbklyn.edu

Urban communities continue to face formidable historic challenges to improving public health. However, reinvestment initiatives, changing demographics, and growth in urban areas are creating changes that offer new opportunities for improving health while requiring that health systems be adapted to residents' health needs. This commentary suggests that health care improvement in metropolitan areas will require setting local, state, and national agendas around 3 priorities. First, health care must reorient around powerful population dynamics, in particular, cultural diversity, growing numbers of elderly, those in welfare-workplace transition, and those unable to negotiate an increasingly complex health system. Second, communities and governments must assess the consequences of health professional shortages, safety net provider closures and conversions, and new marketplace pressures in terms of their effects on access to care for vulnerable urban populations; they must also weigh the potential value of emerging models for improving those populations' care. Finally, governments at all levels should use their influence through accreditation, standards, tobacco settlements, and other financing streams to educate and guide urban providers in directions that respond to urban communities' health care needs.


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