Kisuule Flora, Minter-Jordan Myechia, Zenilman Jonathan, Wright Scott M
Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21224, USA.
J Hosp Med. 2007 Mar;2(2):93-101. doi: 10.1002/jhm.185.
Several years after the inception of the hospitalist movement, hospitalist roles have evolved in breadth and sophistication. Although public health is not formally recognized or previously described as an arena for hospitalists, hospitalists are often engaged in public health practice. This article attempts to alert hospitalists to the potential to make contributions to the field of public health and defines the public health skills that can positively affect the lives of their patients and the communities they serve. In a public health role, hospitalists may improve the quality of inpatient care. This article reviews how public health and hospital-based practices have already intersected and proposes further development within this discipline. In our ever-changing health care system, hospitalists play key roles in the central public health domains of assessment, assurance, and policy development. Insightful hospitalists will recognize and embrace these responsibilities in caring for patients and society.
在医院医生运动兴起数年之后，医院医生的角色在广度和复杂性方面都有所发展。尽管公共卫生并未得到正式认可，也未曾被描述为医院医生的一个领域，但医院医生经常参与公共卫生实践。本文旨在提醒医院医生注意他们在公共卫生领域做出贡献的潜力，并明确那些能够积极影响患者生活及其所服务社区的公共卫生技能。在公共卫生角色中，医院医生可以提高住院治疗的质量。本文回顾了公共卫生与医院实践已经如何相互交叉，并提出了该学科内的进一步发展方向。在我们不断变化的医疗体系中，医院医生在评估、保障和政策制定等核心公共卫生领域发挥着关键作用。有洞察力的医院医生会在照顾患者和社会的过程中认识并承担起这些责任。
