BACKGROUND: Primary care practices are faced with the challenge of having too much to
do in too little time. As a result, behavioral counseling is often overlooked, especially for …

The Health Systems Knowledge Network was appointed by the WHO Commission on the
Social Determinants of Health from September 2005 to March 2007. It was made up of 14 …

The patient-centered medical home (PCMH) is four things: 1) the fundamental tenets of
primary care: first contact access, comprehensiveness, integration/coordination, and …

CHALLENGING INEQUITY THROUGH HEALTH SYSTEMS Final Report Knowledge Network
on Health Systems Page 1 CHALLENGING INEQUITY THROUGH HEALTH SYSTEMS Lead …

Since its inception in rural, pre-apartheid South Africa, community-oriented primary care
(COPC) has intrigued and informed public health and primary care leaders worldwide …

In widely quoted ecological analyses, primary care is associated with population health. 1, 2
Not only with population health, 3, 4 but with health equity, 5, 6 health care quality, 7, 8 and …

" This guidebook systematically analyses the contribution of family medicine to highquality
primary health care in addressing the challenges faced by current health systems, and …

On Oct 14, Now more than ever, the World Health Report for 2008, was launched at Almaty,
a city formerly called Alma-Ata and well known for the 1978 WHO declaration on primary …

The NCD Alliance1 aims to put non-communicable diseases (NCDs) on the global agenda
to address the NCD crisis. Improving outcomes in morbidity and mortality by 2015 will clearly …

BACKGROUND Community-oriented primary care (COPC) is a systematic approach to
health care based upon principles derived from epidemiology, primary care, preventive …