Implementing The Primary Health Care Approach

Understanding implementing the primaryhealthcare approach requires examining multiple perspectives and considerations. Implementing the primaryhealthcare approach: a primer. Part I explains the PHC approach, its history, core concepts and rationale, and draws out lessons for transformation. Part II addresses operational and strategic levers that make PHC work. PHC Global Report Volume I. World Health Organisation.

https://eurohealthobservatory.who.int/publications/i/implementing-the-primary-health-care-approach-a-primer. The Primer is organized in three parts. Integrating public health and primary care at the core of the PHC ....

Building on this, revisiting the four core functions (4Cs) of primary care: operational .... Abstract Background: The four primary care (PC) core functions (the ‘4Cs’, ie, first contact, comprehensiveness, coordination and continuity) are essential for good quality primary healthcare and their achievement leads to lower costs, less inequality and better population health. Similarly, federal Investment in Primary Care Transformation. This systematic review identifies outcomes of federal investment in primary care delivery transformation on patient experience, costs and utilization, population health, and practice experience.

In relation to this, successful advanced practice nursing implementation in primary .... Implications for practice and research Healthcare leaders and policymakers should establish clear legal frameworks defining advanced practice nursing roles, scope of practice and funding mechanisms, whilst fostering dialogue between nurses, physicians and patients to enable successful implementation. This report offers a synthesis of the full report “Implementing the primary health care approach: a primer.” The Primer understands primary health care as a central policy priority and consolidates the global evidence that is needed to address practical implementation issues. Furthermore, primary Health Care: The Cornerstone of Resilient Health Systems.

Georgetown, Guyana, 13 November 2025 - PAHO, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health, Guyana, commenced a three-day workshop focused on strengthening Primary Health Care (PHC), a cornerstone of public health and the foundation of resilient health systems. This initiative provides an opportunity to reflect on PHC as one of the most powerful and transformative concepts in public health. At the World Health Assembly in May 2023, WHO’s 194 Member States expressed strong support for the urgent need to reorient health systems to the PHC approach to accelerate progress towards universal health coverage (UHC).