Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri--Columbia, 1998. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves : 67-70). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (M.S.P.H.)--University of Michigan, 1939.

Thesis (M.S.P.H.)--University of Michigan, 1934.

Thesis (M.S.P.H.)--University of Michigan, 1931.

Thesis (M.S.P.H.)--University of Michigan, 1937.

Thesis (M.S.P.H.)--University of Michigan, 1937.

Thesis equivalent (M.P.H.)--University of Michigan, 1948.

Thesis (M. Nursing)--Montana State University--Bozeman, 2007. / Typescript. Chairperson, Graduate Committee: Jean Shreffler-Grant. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 45-49).

Thesis (M.A. (Nursing Science)) -- University of Limpopo, 2019 / Quality health care includes availability, accessibility, affordability, acceptability, competence of health care providers, reducing waiting time, ensuring privacy and confidentiality, ensuring safety and security, and reducing mortality and morbidity. Despite many initiatives made by the National Department of Health through the Minister of Health, provision of quality health care services remains a serious challenge in South Africa, especially in the public rural clinics. Communities from rural areas face many challenges at the public healthcare clinics such as poor infrastructure, attitudes from staff, old equipment, insufficient medicines, dirty healthcare sectors, and longer waiting times, which has led to provision of poor health care services. Methodology A quantitative research approach was used to conduct this study. The study was conducted in the Capricorn District of the Limpopo Province. Three municipalities; namely Blouberg, Lepelle-Nkumpi and Aganang, were selected from the five municipalities located in the Capricorn District because they are predominantly rural. A simple random sampling applying fish bowl method was used to select the public clinics in each municipality. A cross-sectional study design was used to conduct the study. Only professional nurses were selected to participate in this study. Data were collected using a structured self-administered questionnaire, over a period of three months. A total of 155 professional nurses were selected because they met the selection criteria. The response rate was 100% because all the 155 questionnaires distributed were completed. Data were analysed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences program version 22.0 with the assistance of the University of Limpopo statistician. Results The findings of the study indicated that only 3 (2%) of the clinics operated for 24 hours, 72 (46%) operated for 8 hours and 80 (52%) operated for 12 hours. The majority of the professional nurses 123 (83%) said that the clinics are overwhelmed by large numbers of patients, whereas 26 (17%) of the professional nurses said that the clinics are not overwhelmed by large numbers of patients. Very few 29 (19%) professional nurses were satisfied with the salary they were paid, whereas the majority 124 (80%) were not satisfied with salary they were paid, and only 2 (1%) were unsure. Recommendations Recommendations were made to improve the quality of healthcare services in the public rural clinics: The Department of Health should review the salaries they pay professional nurses in rural clinics, particularly the Occupational Specific Dispensation, and they should be given a higher salary. Furthermore, the government should increase the salaries of nurses working in the public rural clinics to at least 10% higher than those in urban clinics within the next 5 years to attract more nurses to the public rural clinics. The Limpopo Provincial Department of Health should liaise with the treasury department to provide realistic budget to accommodate the population. Conclusion The findings of this study revealed the factors related to the provision of quality health care services at the selected public clinics in the rural areas of the Capricorn District, Limpopo Province. The study was limited to public clinics in the rural areas; therefore, the findings of this study cannot be generalised to the clinics that did not participate in the study. Keywords: Quality, healthcare services, public rural clinics.

Interprofessional collaboration in healthcare is vital to the nation’s health and interprofessional education is of significant interest in the current academic climate and practice environment. Remote Area Medical is a non-profit healthcare organization that partners with community hosts to provide dental, vision, and medical services to medically underserved patients in remote areas of the United States and abroad. RAM mobile clinics have served over 785,000 people since their founding in 1985, providing vital healthcare services free of charge through the volunteer services of healthcare professionals. RAM mobile clinics provide an excellent opportunity for interprofessional collaboration and interprofessional education as learners partner with volunteer professionals to serve the community. The RAM mobile clinic in Gray, Tennessee was first established in 2017 and implemented the innovate utilization of undergraduate and graduate health professional students from the East Tennessee State University Academic Health Sciences Center in student teams. Interprofessional student teams along with precepting faculty are flexible in location and services offered to best serve the needs of the mobile clinic at any given time. Interprofessional student teams work to improve patient utilization of services offered at the event and assist with medication histories and health screens while growing student interprofessional patient care skills in the process. The objective of this research is to describe the impact of interprofessional student teams on patient care at the Gray, Tennessee RAM mobile clinic during the first two years. Data was collected from the years 2017 and 2018 by the student volunteer coordinator then analyzed by student researchers. The interprofessional student teams consisted of 87 student volunteers that were training in Clinical and Rehabilitative Sciences, Medicine, Nursing, Public Health, or Pharmacy over the course of the three-day mobile clinic in 2017 and 109 different student volunteers in 2018. Student teams were precepted by interprofessional faculty and logged 2,332 interventions in 2017 and 1,130 interventions in 2018. The top two interventions in 2017 were Medication Histories and Blood Glucose Screens while the top two interventions in 2018 were Medication Histories and Health Screens. Variation in number of interventions logged and type of interventions logged can be explained by event characteristics that differed between the two years. Student participants commented positively on their engagement with one another and discussions they had to better understand each other’s professions between patient encounters. This research attempts to demonstrate that the impact of interprofessional student teams at a RAM mobile clinic is worth the investment of faculty resources in planning and execution to engage student learning while benefitting the patient population being served. This research also provided a hypothesis for additional research to be conducted around the 2019 Gray, Tennessee RAM mobile clinic.