Essay On Healthy People 2020

Healthy People 2020 have a number of goals such as having the community attaining high-quality, longer lives free of preventable disease, disability, injury, and premature death to all health groups with equality and without disparities; Advanced Practice Nurses (APN) is contributing to these goals through community medicine. Access to primary health care is getting harder every day (epically with low income populations) due to a number of reasons including; a decreasing number of physicians choosing primary care as their specialty and the cost of care. Without access to primary care the community cannot achieve the Health People 2020 goals, APN’s fills this void through a number of avenues from the private sector to the public sector while providing affordable healthcare.

There is growing trend where physicians are choosing different specialties instead of choosing primary care, primarily due to low reimbursement rate in

The Bureau of Labor and Statistics 2010 indicates that a family practice physician wage is twice as much as a APN, an hourly rate of 108.67 versus 51.14 respectively. The reports, even though the cost is less APNs provide similar or greater level of care to the community (Allen, Dennison Himmelfarb, Frick, & Szanton, 2014). This cost savings can be passed to the community or double the number of providers allowing greater access to that community while still providing quality care.

Advanced Nurse Practitioners are contributing to the goals of Healthy People 2020 tby providing affordable community primary health care; accessing all groups with equality. Nurse practitioners are filling a gap in care at an affordable rate while providing exceptional