Primary care is crucial for improving health outcomes and lowering overall healthcare costs. According to a 2021 report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, “People in ...
Providing high-quality primary care is key to improving health care in the United States. The Affordable Care Act sharpened the emerging focus on primary care as a critical lever to use in improving ...
Greater use of primary care services has long been associated with better health, better care, and lower costs. But policies in support of primary care are not commensurate with their potential ...
Primary care is essential to advancing population health, yet it has faced underinvestment and workforce shortages in the US. Private equity (PE) investments could expand access by facilitating ...
In 1978, the Declaration of Alma-Ata at the International Conference on Primary Health Care launched primary health care as a route to better health for all. The ambition was bold. The Declaration of ...
A new study led by researchers at the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston University, Boston Medical Center, UMass ...
The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of resilient health systems, rooted in the delivery of primary care at the community level, to outbreak detection and response. Some countries that ...
Primary health care (PHC) powers health systems fit for the post-COVID world. In crises and at ordinary times, strong PHC saves lives and money and makes health systems work better for all people. The ...
Primary healthcare providers play an indispensable role in the healthcare system to prevent and manage common health conditions. They may guide patients to make healthy decisions and recommend ...
The U.S. outspends all other industrial countries on health care, and yet we do not enjoy better health. Quite the opposite: an American baby born in 2006 can expect to live to 78—two years less than ...
Primary care is the first point of contact for health care for most people. It is mainly provided by GPs (general practitioners), but community pharmacists, opticians and dentists are also primary ...
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