BACKGROUND The adoption of a healthy lifestyle, including physical activity, a healthy diet, moderate alcohol consumption and abstinence from smoking, is associated with a major decrease in the incidence of chronic diseases and mortality. Primary health-care (PHC) services therefore attempt, with rather limited success, to promote such lifestyles in their patients. The objective of the present ...

Primary health care (PHC) is the best approach to achieve health goals in a country. As medical students are a prominent part of future health care providers, it is important to assess their knowledge regarding basic concepts and functions of PHC. Total 400 medical students, 200 (50%) each from public and private medical universities responded in this study. Mean score was 15.21 ± 2.43 and 14.9...

BACKGROUND Social issues have prominent effects on the peoples' physical and mental health and on the health risk factors. In Iran, many organizations provide social care services to their target population. This study aimed to explore the roles and functions of Primary Health Care (PHC) system in providing social care services in Iran. METHODS This was a qualitative study, for which data wer...

Background: Most primary health care (PHC) services in South Africa are provided by registered nurses working in clinics. Workload and scope of practice of these nurses have increased in recent years, exacerbated by widespread staff shortages. However, PHC nurses often receive little support and supervision, particularly in relation to clinical practice. Doctors working at district level are us...

Primary health care (PHC) represents the first contact between the health care system and the citizens. Over the past years it has been noticed that demand for primary care is increasing. The population is growing older and the prevalence of chronic conditions is increasing. However, the resources provided by the Portuguese National Health System (NHS) are not enough to satisfy the demand, bein...

Abstract Resolute and comprehensive health care in remote rural municipalities (RRMs) requires Primary Health Care (PHC) with a strong community dimension anchored the territory. This paper aims to analyze performance profile of doctors PHC, considering their work both territory PHC units. The perspective doctors, critical agents contributes understanding whether there is an equitable availabil...

In Primary Health Care (PHC) there is empirical planning regarding the nursing staff, which causes a distortion between personnel distribution and the real needs of the health units. The objective was to identify the nursing interventions at the PHC that support personnel staffing. The following sources were: literature review of databases from 1999-2009; field observation at a Family Health Un...

Background Health care (HC) planning strategies aim to transform HC models through integrated care schemes and increasing the response capacity of the primary health care (PHC) services. These reforms will require the provision of new roles that are inherently aligned with the nursing model of care [1]. A reflection is needed about the present and future of the Spanish health care system and th...

Primary Health Centres (PHC) started in 1952, as part of the first Five Year Plan in our country have been playing a vital role in the delivery of health care facilities to the needy in the community. PHC staff consists of doctors, nurses, block health educators, pharmacist, health assistants and multipurpose health workers (MPWs). The health workers, usually with 8 to 10 years of schooling, ar...

Pan American Journal of Public Health (RPSP/PAJPH), which it is my pleasure to present, is devoted to primary health care (PHC) and is part of the movement that the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is leading to renew PHC in the Region of the Americas. The International Conference on Primary Health Care, held in 1978 in Alma-Ata (Kazakhstan, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics), defined ...