Background Respiratory diseases, namely asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), account for one-fourth of the patients at the primary health-care (PHC) facilities in Pakistan. Standard care practices to manage these diseases are necessary to reduce the morbidity and mortality rate associated with non-communicable diseases in developing countries. Objective To develop and measur...

This paper aims to analyze the healthcare coordination by Primary Health Care (PHC), with the backdrop of building a Health Care Network (RAS) in a region in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. We conducted a case study with qualitative and quantitative approaches, proceeding to the triangulation of data between the perception of managers and experience of users. We drew analysis realms and variabl...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the health results of patients who make spontaneous visits when attended by nurses in a primary health care team and by applying a nursing practice guide. DESIGN Cross-sectional, descriptive study. SETTING Primary health care team from the Barcelona metropolitan area, Spain. PARTICIPANTS Patients who request a spontaneous visit for the same day in the primary health ...

Abstract This article aimed to carry out a scoping review of the literature understand formal experiences social participation that have been developed in context Brazilian Primary Health Care (PHC), since creation National System (SUS) until November 2020. The databases LILACS, PubMed, PsycINFO, and Sociological Abstracts were searched, 20 articles included described PHC. results found discuss...

background: according to the important role of health care apprentice program on medical students’ performance, especially in relation with social accountability of medical education, it is attempted to assess efficacy of health care apprentice program on the level of medical students’ knowledge and skills in the context of primary health care at babol university of medial sciences    methods: ...

The healthcare of people with HIV is transitioning from specialty care to the primary healthcare (PHC) system. However, many of the performance indicators used to measure the quality of HIV care pre-date this transition. The goal of this work was to examine how existing HIV care performance indicators measure the comprehensive and longitudinal care offered in a PHC setting. A scoping review con...

BACKGROUND Discrepancies in primary health care (PHC) services between urban and rural settings have already been studied in many countries; however, limited information exists regarding countries, such as Greece, where public Health Centres dedicated to primary care have not been in existence in major cities. The objective of this study was to evaluate points of divergence or convergence betwe...

BACKGROUND Colombia has a highly segmented and fragmented national health system that contributes to inequitable health outcomes. In 2004 the district government of Bogota initiated a Primary Health Care (PHC) strategy to improve health care access and population health status. This study aims to analyse the contribution of the PHC strategy to the improvement of health outcomes controlling for ...

Tel.: (031)373-2032 Fax:(031)373-2039 E-mail: [email protected] Abstract: Curationis 32 (2): 31-37 In South Africa, integration o f services policy was enacted in 1996 with the aim o f increasing health service utilization by increasing accessibility and availability o f all health care services at Primary Health Care (PHC) level. Integration o f PHC services continues to be seen as a pivota...

The importance of primary health care (PHC) research is well understood yet conducting this research can be challenging. Barriers include a lack of funding, support and opportunity. In 2000 the Australian government introduced the Primary Health Care Research, Evaluation and Development (PHCRED) Strategy to address the gap in high-quality research. One component of the strategy, the Research Ca...