Primary care groups as community laboratories
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منابع مشابه
Community-oriented primary care.
Community-oriented primary care (COPC) combines elements of clinical medicine and public health to provide an effective strategy in tackling today's health problems. A primary care practice or program that develops a partnership with an identified community to describe and prioritize health concerns and design and monitor the impact of an intervention can make a difference to the health of a co...
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This is a retrospective report on the importance of Kark and Cassel's 1952 paper on community-oriented primary care (COPC). In 1978, WHO and UNICEF endorsed COPC. However, the ideas girding and framing this approach had first been given full expression in practice some four decades earlier. In Depression-Era South Africa, Sidney Kark, a leader of the National Department of Health, converted ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Public Health
سال: 2001
ISSN: 1741-3842,1741-3850
DOI: 10.1093/pubmed/23.4.259