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Nurse Practitioner Midwives

IMPROVING ACCESS TO HEALTHCARE THROUGH THE USE OF

NURSE PRACTITIONER MIDWIVES: A RESEARCH PROPOSAL

Dynamic change characterizes the American health care environment in the 1990s (Hammonds, 1994, pp. 48-57). Within such an environment, care providers and support organizations must develop and implement new and effective strategies if they are to remain viable entities, and the system itself must change is all members of the American population are to have ready access to healthcare services. The changes in the health care environment result from a combination of factors--increasing costs of health care, changing societal values, advances in treatment therapies, technological innovation, changing demographics, and many others (Nichols and Stevens, 1992, pp. 86-95). Cost is a major factor involved in changes in the delivery of health care delivery and support services. It is, therefore, imperative for health care delivery and support organizations to develop procedures that will lead to more effective and more efficient operations. Proposed national health care reform, increased consumer demands for quality health care, and public outcries for the control of health care costs are issues that must be addressed by all health care institutions in both the public and private sectors. Budget reductions and increased attention to the efficiency and effectiveness of governmentally-provided services of all types are added pressures for health care institutions receiving public funding. The development of effective approaches to the solution of the problems associated with this issue, however, is a difficult task.

In the United States in the mid-1990s, health care insurance is unattainable for some people and unaffordable for millions of others (Weil, 1994, pp. 5-15). The same factors that cause health care insurance to be either unattainable or unaffordable also result in delays by the people affected in seeking necessary health...

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