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  2. Primary health care - Wikipedia

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    Primary health care (PHC) is a whole-of-society approach to effectively organise and strengthen national health systems to bring services for health and wellbeing closer to communities. [ 1 ] Primary health care enables health systems to support a person’s health needs – from health promotion to disease prevention, treatment, rehabilitation ...

  3. Primary care - Wikipedia

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    The World Health Organization attributes the provision of essential primary care as an integral component of an inclusive primary healthcare strategy. Primary care involves the widest scope of healthcare, including all ages of patients, patients of all socioeconomic and geographic origins, patients seeking to maintain optimal health, and patients with all manner of acute and chronic physical ...

  4. Health care - Wikipedia

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    Consequently, a primary care practitioner must possess a wide breadth of knowledge in many areas. Continuity is a key characteristic of primary care, as patients usually prefer to consult the same practitioner for routine check-ups and preventive care, health education, and every time they require an initial consultation about a new health problem.

  5. Primary health centre - Wikipedia

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    The primary health center or primary healthcare center (PHC) is the basic structural and functional unit of the public health services in developing countries.PHCs were established to provide accessible, affordable and available primary health care to people, in accordance with the Alma Ata Declaration of 1978 by the member nations of the World Health Organization WHO.

  6. Medical home - Wikipedia

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    [3] [4] It is described in the "Joint Principles" (see below) as "an approach to providing comprehensive primary care for children, youth and adults." [5] The provision of medical homes is intended to allow better access to health care, increase satisfaction with care, and improve health. [6] [7] [8] [9]

  7. Health system - Wikipedia

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    A health system, health care system or healthcare system is an organization of people, institutions, and resources that delivers health care services to meet the health needs of target populations. There is a wide variety of health systems around the world, with as many histories and organizational structures as there are countries.

  8. Primary nursing - Wikipedia

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    Primary nursing is a system of nursing care delivery that emphasizes continuity of care and responsibility acceptance by having one registered nurse (RN), often teamed with a licensed practical nurse (LPN) and/or nursing assistant (NA), who together provide complete care for a group of patients throughout their stay in a hospital unit or department. [1]

  9. General practitioner - Wikipedia

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    For the provision of primary care, Spain is currently divided geographically in basic health care areas (áreas básicas de salud), each one containing a primary health care team (Equipo de atención primaria). Each team is multidisciplinary and typically includes GPs, community pediatricians, nurses, physiotherapists and social workers ...