Adapting to a Shifting Health Care Landscape: Illinois Breast and Cervical Cancer Program Lead Agencies' Perspectives

Overview

Journal Health Promot Pract

Publisher Sage Publications

Specialties Medical Education
Public Health

Date 2018 May 16

PMID 29759013

Citations 1

Authors

Yamile Molina

Cindy San Miguel

Stephanie Sanz

Liliana San Miguel

Kristin Rankin

Arden Handler

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Abstract

Understanding how safety net programs adapt to systemic health care changes is pivotal for creating feasible recommendations for policy implementation. This study characterizes perspectives of Lead Agency (LA) coordinators of the Illinois Breast and Cervical Cancer Program (IBCCP) in response to sociopolitical changes at state and national levels. Our cross-sectional study included 29 semistructured telephone interviews between December 2015 and January 2016. Respondents indicated some changes in the priority population served, changes in referrals and clinical services, and, a continued commitment to IBCCP. Our findings suggest that IBCCP and other safety net programs will need to be flexible to meet the ongoing needs of historically vulnerable populations in a complex, shifting environment. Implications for public health practice and policy include the need to ensure that program personnel are aware of evidence-based strategies to reach different priority populations and are kept abreast of organizational and system changes that may affect referral patterns as well as the need to educate health care providers working with safety net programs about changes in the delivery and coordination of services.

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