RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Uniting Public Health and Primary Care for Healthy Communities in the COVID-19 Era and Beyond
JF The Journal of the American Board of Family
                Medicine
JO J Am Board Fam Med
FD American Board of Family Medicine
SP S203
OP S209
DO 10.3122/jabfm.2021.S1.200458
VO 34
IS Supplement
A1 John M. Westfall
A1 Winston Liaw
A1 Kim Griswold
A1 Kurt Stange
A1 Larry A. Green
A1 Robert Phillips
A1 Andrew Bazemore
A1 Carlos Roberto Jaén
A1 Lauren S. Hughes
A1 Jen DeVoe
A1 Heidi Gullett
A1 James C. Puffer
A1 Robin S. Gotler
YR 2021
UL http://www.jabfm.org/content/34/Supplement/S203.abstract
AB The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has laid bare the dis-integrated health care system in the United States. Decades of inattention and dwindling support for public health, coupled with declining access to primary care medical services have left many vulnerable communities without adequate COVID-19 response and recovery capacity. “Health is a Community Affair” is a 1966 effort to build and deploy local communities of solution that align public health, primary care, and community organizations to identify health care problem sheds, and activate local asset sheds. After decades of independent effort, the COVID-19 pandemic offers an opportunity to reunite and align the shared goals of public health and primary care. Imagine how different things might look if we had widely implemented the recommendations from the 1966 report? The ideas and concepts laid out in “Health is a Community Affair” still offer a COVID-19 response and recovery approach. By bringing public health and primary care together in community now, a future that includes a shared vision and combined effort may emerge.