Continuity of care has been regarded as being fundamental to primary care and has been linked to improve quality of care. In this editorial, I will explore the impact of continuity of care on the quality of care and the mechanism of how quality helps to sustain continuity; recommendations for policy makers in the health care system to improve quality by promoting continuity will be outlined at ...

INTRODUCTION Since the late 1990 s, the Chinese government has carried out several reforms on the primary health care, which is greatly improved but still left much to be desired, especially for the health workforces. The aim of this study was to analyze the number of health workforces and the trends in distribution of health workforces in Jiangsu province of eastern China from 2008 to 2012. ...

As the United States enters a new era of value-based payment heavy in emphasis on primary care measurement, careful examination of selected measures and their potential impact on outcomes and vulnerable populations is essential. Applying a theoretical model of health care quality as a coding matrix, we used a directed content analysis approach to categorize individual Merit Based Incentive Paym...

The aim of this review was to describe the background and evolution of primary oral health care (POHC), including the development of an oral health policy, by identifying the resources necessary for oral health services, reviewing the evidence of the effectiveness of oral health promotion and education, providing essential oral health care, and establishing evidence of the benefits of regular d...

Falkingham concludes that these results show the importance of economic activity in the determination of dependency and in so doing they point to the inadequacy of much of the debate on retirement provision. The 1983 Green Paper on the reform of the State Earnings Related Pension Scheme (SERPS) used the argument that future higher dependency levels would be too great for the economy to bear wit...

Falkingham concludes that these results show the importance of economic activity in the determination of dependency and in so doing they point to the inadequacy of much of the debate on retirement provision. The 1983 Green Paper on the reform of the State Earnings Related Pension Scheme (SERPS) used the argument that future higher dependency levels would be too great for the economy to bear wit...

Predom inantly curative services, it is at last realised, do not produce wellness. H ealth is determ ined by healthy living which includes good food, clean w ater, unpolluted air and good housing, both in the rural and urban context. Because the W orld Health Organisation and its m em ber states have recognised this, the In ter­ national C onference on Prim ary H ealth Care held in Alma A ta in...

Primary Health Care (PHC) has been promulgated for over two decades as a global strategy for ensuring basic health care for all people. PHC is characterized by equity, accessibility, availability of resources, social participation, intersectoral community action, and cultural sensitivity. While PHC can be discussed as philosophy or a process, it is critical that PHC be understood as a community...

Primary health care is best provided by a primary health care team of general practitioners, community nurses, and other staff working together from good premises and looking after the population registered with the practice. It encourages personal and continuing care of patients and good communication among the members of the team. Efforts should be made to foster this model of primary care wh...

Health care clinical and financial risk is a multivectored problem, requiring multivectored solutions that extend beyond primary care. Worksite clinics have emerged that leverage empowered primary care, but incorporate a range of tactics aimed at driving appropriate care and cost by disrupting health care's perverse incentives. This article describes some of those approaches and shows evidence ...