Strategies

Provide prenatal care in a group setting, integrating health assessment, education, and support

Increase patients’ health-related knowledge via efforts to simplify health education materials, improve patient-provider communication, and increase overall literacy

Provide continuous, comprehensive, whole person primary care that uses a coordinated team of medical providers across the health care system

Integrate legal services into health care settings to address legal issues that affect health (e.g., housing, food, utilities); services provided by private practice lawyers, law students, etc.

Regulate mental health insurance to increase access to mental health services, including treatment for substance use disorders

Deliver health care services and support to individuals with mental health concerns via mobile devices using text messaging or mobile apps

Use regulation to extend nurse practitioners’ (NPs’) scope of practice to provide care to the full scope of their training and skills without physician oversight, especially for primary care

Support joint decision making between health care practitioners and patients through shared decision making (SDM); part of patient-centered care

Provide birthing people with information about the risks and benefits of behaviors that affect their health before, during, and after pregnancy

Provide health care services on school premises to attending elementary, middle, and high school students; physical and mental health services provided by teams of nurses, nurse practitioners, and physicians