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The Family Van: Health Care on the Move Through Mobile Clinics
Jennifer Bennet, Executive Director, Harvard Medical School, The Family Van
Mobile clinics are a distinct community of providers serving the medically disenfranchised, an invisible community of patients. These clinics typically serve those who are at high risk for disparities in health outcomes, yet remain outside the reach of traditional public health research. Thus, both the community served and the impact created by mobile health clinics is unaccounted for in traditional health services research. These clinics have begun to aggregate their public health information, to compare services, effectiveness and costs and to collectively capture the scope of work provided by this segment of the health care system and calculate its impact on that system. These programs collectively provided 16,266 visits and over 30,000 screenings during one year. Nontraditional health care programs like mobile clinics represent an untapped resource for providing cost effective prevention focused health services to populations at risk for disparities in health outcomes.
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