5142.1 Rural and Frontier Health Disparities and Challenges

Wednesday, October 31, 2012: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Oral
Many rural populations live shorter lives, have different expectations for health, see different clinicians, receive different clinical services and may or may not experience different clinical outcomes when interacting with hospitals and clinics than their urban counterparts. These differences are incompletely understood but are important if we are to reduce urban / rural health disparities in a time of increasing needs and increasing competition for resources.
Session Objectives: 1.Participants will be able to desciribe one major difference between the ways rural and urban people define "good health". 2.Participants will be able to describe how the contributions of physician assistants to health care in rural areas differ from those of PAs in urban areas. 3.Participants will be able to describe differences in physician assistant practice patterns and, particularly, degree of autonomy, by practice setting and years in practice. 4.Participants will be able to describe how Florida rural hospitals compare with urban hospitals in the same part of the state in terms of complexity of cases cared for and quality of clinical outcomes.
Organizer:
Wayne Myers, MD
Moderator:
Wayne Myers, MD

10:30am
Do rural and urban populations define “health” differently?
Charles E. Gessert, MD, MPH, Stephen Waring, DVM, PhD, Pat Conway, PhD, LSCW, Lisa Bailey-Davis, MA, RD, Melissa Roberts, MS and Jeffrey J. Vanwormer, PhD
     
10:45am
Comparing urban and rural Physician Assistants in hospital outpatient departments, 2005-2009
David Coniglio, MPA, PA-C, Cynthia Abell, MSCR Candidate, Wesley Rich, PhD, David Tillman, PhD, Tom Colletti, MPAS, PA-C and Tina Tseng, PhD, MSPH
     
11:00am
Increasing health workforce capacity by utilizing physician assistants in clinical areas that exhibit a high degree of PA autonomy
Raymond Fang, MSC MASC, Joshua Umar, Ann Davis and Michael Powe
11:15am
Quality indicators at Florida's statutory rural hospitals
Ronald Wiewora, MD, MPH and Daniel Kairys, MD
     
  

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Organized by: Medical Care

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH)

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