Innovative primary care delivery in rural Alaska: a review of patient encounters seen by community health aides.

CONCLUSIONS: CHA/Ps provide a broad range of primary care in remote Alaskan communities whose residents would otherwise be without consistent medical care. Alaska's CHA/P program could serve as a health-care delivery model for other remote communities with health care access challenges. To access the supplementary material to this article: 'NPIRS Categorical Hierarchy' please see the Supplementary files under Article Tools online. PMID: 28156357 [PubMed - in process]
Source: International Journal of Circumpolar Health - Category: Global & Universal Tags: Int J Circumpolar Health Source Type: research