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Primary health care Primary health care (PHC) addresses the majority of a person’s health needs throughout their lifetime This includes physical, mental and social well-being and it is people-centred rather than disease-centred PHC is a whole-of-society approach that includes health promotion, disease prevention, treatment, rehabilitation and palliative care
Primary health care - World Health Organization (WHO) Primary health care is an approach to health and wellbeing centred on the needs and circumstances of individuals, families and communities It addresses comprehensive and interrelated physical, mental and social health and wellbeing
Primary health care Primary health care is about health at all ages It involves prevention, health promotion, treatment, rehabilitation and palliation This approach empowers people and communities to choose healthier lifestyles, prevent diseases, and access early detection, treatment and recovery services Primary health care is not about building specific health facilities It is an overall approach to
Primary health care - India Primary health care (PHC) is a holistic approach to health that includes promotive, preventive, curative, rehabilitative, and palliative services It is the first level of contact between individuals and the healthcare system
Primary care - World Health Organization (WHO) Primary care is the foundation for achieving universal health coverage (UHC) People in countries with strong primary care often live healthier lives and experience greater health equity Investing in primary care can also reduce overall healthcare costs and ensure everyone receives the services they need
Clinical Checklists - World Health Organization (WHO) The WHO Primary Care Checklist summarizes ten key components of the patient encounter and encompasses the “5C's of primary care”: first contact accessibility, continuity, coordination, comprehensiveness and person-centeredness
Understanding primary health care Primary care refers to the delivery of services, over a person’s life course, that are close to where they live These services meet most people’s health needs, including preventing and treating illness; delivering reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health care; managing chronic health conditions; rehabilitation; and palliative care
Primary health care Primary health care is a whole-of-society approach to effectively organize and strengthen national health systems to bring services for health and wellbeing closer to communities
Operational framework for primary health care This operational framework, the related Vision for primary health care in the 21st Century, and associated technical documents are informed by reviews of the literature, regional reports prepared in 2018 on primary health care, country case studies on primary health care, a synthesis of lessons learned over the past 40 years, input from the
Primary health care around the world: delivering health services to . . . WHO Americas Region: Caribbean countries are improving the availability and quality of care for critical care patients by training and empowering their health workforce WHO South-East Asia Region: India is bringing health services closer to communities by strengthening its network of primary health care centres