ReviewThe Lancet. Public health2023
The road to achieving epidemic-ready primary health care.
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- Social prescribing interventions in response to older adults' needs in community settings - nurses' perspectives: a qualitative study.Journal of research in nursing : JRN · 2026Article
- Community perspectives on health professionals' competence for quality primary health care in Amhara region, Ethiopia: a qualitative study.Human resources for health · 2026Article
- Challenging 21-day quarantine guidelines for mumps in Beijing: Data-driven recommendations for a high-coverage MMR vaccination era (2019-2024).Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2025Article
- Socioeconomic inequality and decomposition of core capacity in global health security: the role of health system.Journal of global health · 2025Article
- Progress in epidemic-ready primary health care: early pilot results from four African countries (Ethiopia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Uganda), December 2023 - October 2024.BMJ global health · 2025Article
- Entropy-based risk network identification in adolescent self-injurious behavior using machine learning and network analysis.Translational psychiatry · 2025Article
- Implementation of an infection prevention and control response strategy to combat the Sudan Virus Disease outbreak in an urban setting, the Kampala Metropolitan area, Uganda, 2022.BMC infectious diseases · 2025Article
- Health inequalities under decentralized governance: challenges in resource allocation and funding in Greece.Frontiers in health services · 2025Article
- Improving primary healthcare quality in China through training needs analysis.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on Primary Health Care through 'health providers' eyes': Α qualitative study of focus groups and individual interviews in Greece.The European journal of general practice · 2024Article
- Supporting a rapid primary care response to emergent communicable disease threats with PACK (Practical Approach to Care Kit) in Florianópolis, Brazil.BMJ global health · 2024Article
- COVID-19 related disruption and resilience in immunisation activities in LMICs: a rapid review.BMJ open · 2024Review
- Determinants of COVID-19 severity and mortality in children: A retrospective and multicenter cohort study in Medan, Indonesia.Narra J · 2024Article
- Efficiency evaluation and promoter identification of primary health care system in China: an enhanced DEA-Tobit approach.BMC health services research · 2024Article
- Addressing Hospital Overwhelm During the COVID-19 Pandemic by Using a Primary Health Care-Based Integrated Health System: Modeling Study.JMIR medical informatics · 2024Article
- Assessing primary healthcare disaster preparedness: a study in Northern Italy.Primary health care research & development · 2024Article
- A One Health approach to fight antimicrobial resistance in Uganda: Implementation experience, results, and lessons learned.Biosafety and health · 2024Article
- Interconnected mental health symptoms: network analysis of depression, anxiety, stress, and burnout among psychiatric nurses in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Lessons learnt from COVID-19 to reduce mortality and morbidity in the Global South: addressing global vaccine equity for future pandemics.BMJ global health · 2024Review
- The World Bank - PAHO Lancet regional health Americas commission on primary health care and resilience in Latin America and the Caribbean.Lancet regional health. Americas · 2023Article
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Abstract
Millions of avoidable deaths arising from the COVID-19 pandemic emphasise the need for epidemic-ready primary health care aligned with public health to identify and stop outbreaks, maintain essential services during disruptions, strengthen population resilience, and ensure health worker and patient safety. The improvement in health security from epidemic-ready primary health care is a strong argument for increased political support and can expand primary health-care capacities to improve detection, vaccination, treatment, and coordination with public health-needs that became more apparent during the pandemic. Progress towards epidemic-ready primary health care is likely to be stepwise and incremental, advancing when opportunity arises based on explicit agreement on a core set of services, improved use of external and national funds, and payment based in large part on empanelment and capitation to improve outcomes and accountability, supplemented with funding for core staffing and infrastructure and well designed incentives for health improvement. Health-care worker and broader civil society advocacy, political consensus, and bolstering government legitimacy could promote strong primary health care. Epidemic-ready primary health-care infrastructure that is able to help prevent and withstand the next pandemic will require substantial financial and structural reforms and sustained political and financial commitment. Governments, advocates, and bilateral and multilateral agencies should seize this window of opportunity before it closes.
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