The Ten National Health Priorities
1. Provision of primary care services for medically underserved populations, especially those located in rural or economically depressed areas.
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2. Development of multi-institutional systems for coordination or consolidation of health services (including obstetric, pediatric, emergency, medical, intensive and coronary care, and radiation therapy services).
3. Development of medical group practices, health maintenance organizations, and other organized systems for the provision of health care.
4. Training and increased utilization of physician assistants, especially nurse clinicians.
5. Development of multi-institutional arrangements for sharing of support services necessary to all health service institutions.
6. Promotion of activities to achieve needed improvements in the quality of health services, including needs identified by the review activities of Professional Standards Review Organizations under Part B of Title XI of the Social Security Act.
7. Development of health service institutions to provide various levels of care (including intensive, acute-general, and extended care) on a geographically integrated basis.
8. Promotion of activities for disease prevention, including studies of nutritional and environmental factors affecting health and provision of preventive health care services.
9. Adoption of uniform cost accounting, simplified reimbursement, and utilization reporting systems and improved management procedures for health service institutions.
10. Development of effective methods of educating the general public concerning proper personal (including preventive) health care and effective use of available health services.
(Chopoorian, Teresa, and Margaret Craig,"PL-93-641: Nursing and Health Care Delivery,"American Journal of Nursing,1976).
