Cohen Genna R
Center for Studying Health System Change, Washington, D.C., USA.
Issue Brief (Commonw Fund). 2008 Dec;48:1-11.
Retail store-based health clinics, which provide basic preventive services and diagnose and treat simple health ailments, have proliferated rapidly in recent years. Younger families and people that have difficulty accessing health care services--including the uninsured and minorities--are among the groups most likely to use these clinics. Still, in 2007, only 1.2 percent of U.S. families reported they had visited a retail clinic during the past 12 months, and only 2.3 percent of families reported ever having visited one, according to the Health Tracking Household Survey conducted by the Center for Studying Health System Change. The boom in retail clinics, moreover, appears to be slowing. Continued fall-off in the growth of retail clinics would likely disproportionately affect underserved Americans who lack affordable alternatives for primary care.
以零售商店为基础的健康诊所近年来迅速增多，这些诊所提供基本的预防服务，并诊断和治疗简单的健康问题。年轻家庭以及难以获得医疗服务的人群——包括未参保者和少数族裔——是最有可能使用这些诊所的群体。不过，根据卫生系统变革研究中心进行的健康跟踪家庭调查，2007年，只有1.2%的美国家庭报告称在过去12个月内去过零售诊所，只有2.3%的家庭报告曾去过。此外，零售诊所的繁荣似乎正在放缓。零售诊所增长的持续下降可能会对缺乏负担得起的初级保健替代方案的服务不足的美国人产生不成比例的影响。
