Preventive health care (PHC) is the awareness and efforts a person undertakes to enhance and preserve physical, mental, and emotional health for today and future. Although PHC information is widely available, people are not utilizing the information to improve their health. We examine PHC information sources utilized by persons who are more health-oriented vs. less health-oriented. The less hea...

Recent international research indicates that health care systems with stronger focus on primary care have better outcomes for less money than those with a strong focus on hospital care (Macinko, 2003; Starfield, 1998; 2005). This means that strong primary care increases sustainability of all health care systems. Nevertheless, when comparing different countries, the term primary care has differe...

OBJECTIVE To know the specific health problems referred as ambulatory care sensitive conditions (ACSC) and to identify the primordial interventions of primary health care (PHC) in reducing hospitalisations due to ACSC. DESIGN Descriptive study of hospital discharges generated in Catalonia during 1998-1999, and a Delphi study to reach information about PHC primordial interventions. MEASURES ...

Primary health care (PHC) reforms focus on improving access to and effectiveness of general practice services, with greater emphasis on health promotion, prevention and chronic disease management, and integration with population health approaches. Currently, reforms are often based on scant evidence from the most accessible and easily known PHC domains and activities, yet most PHC is complex an...

Primary Care and Primary Health Care are very similar terms which are often employed interchangeably, but which are also used to denote quite different concepts. Much time and energy is spent discussing which term is the appropriate one for a particular application. There is a growing recognition internationally that the two terms describe two quite distinct entities. Recent Canadian uses of th...

Abstract The objective was to systematically search and synthesize the evidence available in literature about effect of physical exercise interventions Primary Health Care (PHC), carried out Brazil, on cardiometabolic risk factors. performed PubMed, Virtual Library Web Science databases. inclusion criteria were: studies with activity (PA) or PHC; Brazil; population aged >18 years; at least o...

BACKGROUND Cambodia is a country where the resources for treating mental health disorders are far from sufficient. One strategy to narrow the treatment gap is to integrate mental health into primary health care (PHC). Understanding the knowledge and attitudes towards mental health integration that health-care workers have is important for assessing the challenges and opportunities when planning...

BACKGROUND Pakistan has a broad system of primary health care facilities to achieve mission of "Health for all". Over the last seven years health expenditure by government of Pakistan has been increased to attain this goal. This study was conducted with the aim to assess all blocks of service readiness (basic equipment, basic amenities, laboratory capacity, standard precautions and essential me...