Abstract
Abstract Slovenia has a longstanding tradition of providing accessible and comprehensive PHC services. Established in 1927, Slovenian PHC strongly emphasizes addressing health equity and reaching out to vulnerable populations in local communities to identify environmental, social and behaviour-related risk factors and diagnose disease in its early stage of development. Through a cross-sectoral cooperation based on a community based approach and a strong collaboration of public health and primary care services, Slovenia has improved health and reduced health inequality over the last decades. Registered nurses in family medicine teams conduct regular screening and follow-up for people with noncommunicable diseases to reduce family doctors’ growing burden and workload. Each family medicine practice has a list of registered patients (a capitation list), managed in defined groups of healthy individuals; those with risk factors; and those with the most common chronic diseases. Financial incentives are given for meeting target values in screening check-ups. The National Public Health Institute manages and leads the noncommunicable disease prevention and control programme at the national level.
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