ReviewJournal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine2007
Improving health and building human capital through an effective primary care system.
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22 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Primary health care quality indicators: An umbrella review.PloS one · 2019Pooled it
- The breadth of primary care: a systematic literature review of its core dimensions.BMC health services research · 2010Pooled it
- Using HbA1c measurements and the Finnish Diabetes Risk Score to identify undiagnosed individuals and those at risk of diabetes in primary care.BMC public health · 2023Trial
- Challenges and opportunities in financing urban primary healthcare in Iran: pathways to universal health coverage.BMC primary care · 2026Article
- Strategies to Strengthen Iraq's Primary Healthcare System: A Systematic Literature Review With Special Focus on Society 5.0.Public health challenges · 2025Review
- Characteristics of family physicians with additional training or focused practices in caring for older adults: Population-based retrospective cohort study.Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien · 2024Article
- Impact of Comprehensive Primary Care in Patients With Complex Chronic Diseases: Nationwide Cohort Database Analysis in Korea.Journal of Korean medical science · 2024Article
- Medicare beneficiaries with more comprehensive primary care physicians report better primary care.Health services research · 2023Article
- Coupling coordination of the provision of medical services and high-quality economic development in the Yangtze River Economic Belt.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Identification of the Requirements for the Effective Human Resource Development in the Health System.Medical journal of the Islamic Republic of Iran · 2021Article
- Strengthening Primary Health-Care Services to Help Prevent and Control Long-Term (Chronic) Non-Communicable Diseases in Low- and Middle-Income Countries.Risk management and healthcare policy · 2020Review
- New approaches to measuring the comprehensiveness of primary care physicians.Health services research · 2019Article
- Procedures performed by general practitioners and general internal medicine physicians - a comparison based on routine data from Northern Germany.BMC family practice · 2018Article
- Social Capital and Its Effects on Health: Implications for Policy Makers.Iranian journal of public health · 2015Article
- Measuring Comprehensiveness of Primary Care: Challenges and Opportunities.Journal of general internal medicine · 2015Review
- Disentangling the Linkage of Primary Care Features to Patient Outcomes: A Review of Current Literature, Data Sources, and Measurement Needs.Journal of general internal medicine · 2015Review
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- The impact of primary care: a focused review.Scientifica · 2012Review
- QUALICOPC, a multi-country study evaluating quality, costs and equity in primary care.BMC family practice · 2011Article
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Abstract
To improve population health, one must put emphasis on reducing health inequities and enhancing health protection and disease prevention, and early diagnosis and treatment of diseases by tackling the determinants of health at the downstream, midstream, and upstream levels. There is strong theoretical and empirical evidence for the association between strong national primary care systems and improved health indicators. The setting approach to promote health such as healthy schools, healthy cities also aims to address the determinants of health and build the capacity of individuals, families, and communities to create strong human and social capitals. The notion of human and social capitals begins to offer explanations why certain communities are unable to achieve better health than other communities with similar demography. In this paper, a review of studies conducted in different countries illustrate how a well-developed primary health care system would reduce all causes of mortalities, improve health status, reduce hospitalization, and be cost saving despite a disparity in socioeconomic conditions. The intervention strategy recommended in this paper is developing a model of comprehensive primary health care system by joining up different settings integrating the efforts of different parties within and outside the health sector. Different components of primary health care team would then work more closely with individuals and families and different healthy settings. This synergistic effect would help to strengthen human and social capital development. The model can then combine the efforts of upstream, midstream, and downstream approaches to improve population health and reduce health inequity. Otherwise, health would easily be jeopardized as a result of rapid urbanization.
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