Abstract

Primary health care and family medicine at the core of health care: challenges and priorities in how to further strengthen their potential.

Highlights

  • Many countries in the world live through a transition of their health care systems toward primary health care

  • There is a realistic danger that the transition toward a primary health care structure is seen as just this: replacing the hospital by the community, or the specialist by the generalist, with magical implications attached to this structural solution

  • The challenges of primary health care are to capitalize on the working relation it has over time with individuals, families, and communities, in identifying, preventing, and managing health problems

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Summary

Introduction

Many countries in the world live through a transition of their health care systems toward primary health care. The challenges of primary health care are to capitalize on the working relation it has over time with individuals, families, and communities, in identifying, preventing, and managing health problems.

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