In China, a national policy on developing primary care through community health centers
has succeeded in establishing a large number of centers. In a study with a sophisticated …

PURPOSE China introduced a national policy of developing primary care in 2009,
establishing 8,669 community health centers (CHCs) by 2014 that employed more than …

Background Decades before the Declaration of Alma-Ata established the goal of “health for
all”, China had a health system grounded in primary health care (PHC), which focused on …

•. Hutt P. Family medicine in Japan. British Journal of General Practice (2009) 59 (566): p.
699–70 Accessed via www. ncbi. nlm. nih. gov/pmc/articles/PMC2734368/pdf/bjgp59–699 …

In Hong Kong, it is government policy that no one is denied adequate medical care due to a
lack of means, making Hong Kong a proud provider of almost universal access to medical …

Over 40 years ago, primary health care (PHC) was defined in the Alma‐Ata Declaration as a
critical component of the health care system to address the basic health demand of the …

Dear Colleagues, Data abound regarding the role of a strong primary care system in
improving population outcomes and the importance of contributions by family physicians. 1 …

Primary care is now acknowledged to be a foundation of effective, sustainable health care
for populations, with favorable effects on access to care, comprehensiveness, continuity …

Richard H. Glazier MD MPH CCFP FCFP Before considering the problems and potential
solutions facing Canadian primary care and the Canadian health care system, it is important …

Primary care is an integrated model of care underpinned by the discipline of general
practice (GP), aiming to optimise population health and reduce disparities across the …