Primary Health Care (PHC) is a whole of society approach to health and well-being that is focused on the needs and circumstances of individuals, their families, and communities. PHC principles guide health professionals in facilitating equitable conditions that redress social disadvantage and support ...
prevention services included in the collective intervention plan through contracts between health secretariats and public health providers (Glassman et al., 2009). Figure 1 summarises the GSSSH structure. Bogota’s health policy The centre-left government, elected for first time in Bogota in 2004...
Methods: Interviews were conducted with nursing staff working at a primary healthcare centre in South East Sweden. Each interview took place was conducted on a one-to-one basis in dialogue form, using open questions and supported by an interview guide. It was then analysed using a ...
Primary care practitioners need to become aware of the huge impact of COPD (especially in multimorbid patients), have a local support system (e.g. routines, flow charts and nurse-led COPD clinics at the primary healthcare centre), have non-judgemental views of smoking and of COPD as a chr...
Objectives:Improving the quality of primary health care in South Africa is a national priority and the Western Cape Department of Health has identified staff and patient experience as a key component. Its strategic plan, Vision 2020, espouses caring, competence, accountability, integrity, responsiveness...
For instance, whereas the Wiaga Health Centre had a staff strength of 22, that of Doninga Health Centre was only 4 (Table 1). In addition, the year of construction of the health centres and the start of operations differed between the health centres. Whereas some of the health centres ...
Multi staged sampling was done to select public primary care health centres to recruit post stroke patients. At each health centre, convenience sampling was done to recruit adult patients (≥18 years) who received post stroke care between July-December 2012. Baseline measurements were recorded at ...
Another US intervention involving a large health plan included: This multi-component intervention was associated with an 18% cumulative reduction in inpatient admissions and a 32% reduction in readmissions (as compared with a group of practices not implementing the program) over a 4-year study perio...
Son Pisà Primary Health Care Centre, Balearic Health System, Mallorca, Spain Miguel Román-Rodríguez Primary Care Chronic Respiratory Research Unit, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de las Islas Baleares (IdISBa), Mallorca, Spain Miguel Román-Rodríguez General Practitioners Research Institute, Groni...
Patients’ ideas, concerns, and expectations are three important concepts in consultation techniques. Limited studies on these concepts include responses from both health care providers and care recipients of the same consultation. Highlighting both pers