FOREWORD This paper is intended to stimulate discussion on ways in which the objectives of the Primary Health Care Strategy may be further progressed. It has made available to the Ministry of Health to serve as a resource for ongoing policy work. The paper provides a high-level discussion of a range of future directions for the Strategy, largely within the current institutional framework. It do...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to compare technical and scale efficiency of primary care centers from the two largest Greek providers, the National Health System (NHS) and the Social Security Foundation (IKA) and to determine if, and how, efficiency is affected by various exogenous factors such as catchment population and location. METHODS The sample comprised of 194 units (103 NHS ...

Medical schools curricular planning aim to obtain a physician trained to work as general practitioner and the Chilean health reform, considers ambulatory primary care as the main axis of health care. However there is still a low interest among physicians to work in primary health care, where there are problems related to a low level of clinical resolution, clinical and administrative management...

introduction: health care industry consists of an unexpected and confusing environment in which quality events play the important role. in such conditions, the necessary changes should be made. excellence models are general oriented frameworks that are able to achieve the above intention. materials & methods: this study is a descriptive cross-sectional study. data gathered by a standard checkli...