ReviewThe Lancet. Global health2024
Primary health care in practice: usual source of care and health system performance across 14 countries.
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- Recommendations of an Independent Expert Committee for the Development of Quebec's First Government Policy on Primary Care.Healthcare management forum · 2026Article
- Source of Usual Health Care for Adults Age 18 and Older: United States, 2024.NCHS data brief · 2026Review
- Health insurance in Nigeria: Findings from the People's Voice Survey.PLOS global public health · 2026Article
- Informing Facility Selection Through a Web-Based User Ratings System: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial Among Mothers in Urban Lao People's Democratic Republic.JMIR research protocols · 2025Article
- Synthesising key findings from Indonesia's first civil society-led forum on primary health care: PHC forum, Jakarta, 13-14 November 2023.BMC proceedings · 2025Article
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- Utilization of usual source of care and health literacy among older adults with hypertension: a retrospective study.Innovation in aging · 2025Article
- Examining Reasons for Using Non-Primary Care Providers as Usual Source of Health Care: Insights From the All of Us Study.Health care science · 2025Article
- Exploring participants' characteristics and self-assessed readiness to conduct clinical trials in general practice - baseline analysis of the RaPHaeL practice-based research network.Scandinavian journal of primary health care · 2025Article
- Challenges in implementing Indonesia's community-based chronic disease management program (Prolanis): A scoping review.AIMS public health · 2025Review
- Family and community medicine workforce training and practice in the Americas.Revista panamericana de salud publica = Pan American journal of public health · 2025Article
- Primary Care Informatics: Vitalizing the Bedrock of Health Care.Journal of medical Internet research · 2024Article
- Primary Care Telemedicine and Care Continuity: Implications for Timeliness and Short-term Follow-up Healthcare.Journal of general internal medicine · 2024Article
- Efficiency evaluation and promoter identification of primary health care system in China: an enhanced DEA-Tobit approach.BMC health services research · 2024Article
- Regular source of primary care and health services utilisation among Brazilian elderly with mental-physical multimorbidity.BMC geriatrics · 2024Article
- The role of perceived quality of care on outpatient visits to health centers in two rural districts of northeast Ethiopia: a community-based, cross-sectional study.BMC health services research · 2024Article
- Health system utilization and perceived quality among adults in Lao PDR: evidence from a nationally representative phone survey.BMC public health · 2024Article
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Abstract
Primary health care (PHC) is central to attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals, yet comparable cross-country data on key aspects of primary care have not been widely available. This study analysed data from the People's Voice Survey, which was conducted in 2022 and 2023 in 14 countries. We documented usual source of care across countries and examined associations of usual source of care with core PHC services, quality ratings, and health system confidence. We found that 75% of respondents had a usual source of care, and that 40% of respondents accessed usual care in the public sector at primary level. 44% rated their usual source of care as very good or excellent. Access to PHC-linked screenings and treatments varied widely within and across countries. Having any usual source of care was associated with higher take-up of preventive services, greater access to treatment including mental health services, and greater health system endorsement. Strengthening links between health system users and primary care providers could improve take-up of preventive care and increase user satisfaction with health system performance.
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