Primary Health Care and Population Mortality

Primary Health Care and Population Mortality
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1032397373 | 229 Pages | PDF (True) | 11 MB
Population health management is being increasingly adopted by health systems yet the importance of primary health care in influencing population mortality and the mechanisms that explain it are not well understood. Too often, primary health care is regarded as a service for minor health problems and for managing access to secondary care. This limited view is no longer tenable and it is time to be much more ambitious about the place of primary health care in health systems worldwide.