CommentIntegration of personal and community health care
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2012, The LancetTackling NCDs: A different approach is needed
2012, The LancetThe challenges of public health education with a particular reference to China
2010, Public HealthCitation Excerpt :For many in public health, the 1978 Alma-Ata declaration and its iterations which stress the development of primary care and social and economic measures to promote health for all have set the context of their practice.1 For some, the balance since Alma-Ata has tilted towards personal health care at the expense of population health.2 However, current concerns about the affordability and inequity of health care, the ever-expanding menu of newer drugs and procedures, and ageing of the population are near universal.
Integrating primary and community care: An international perspective
2018, Primary Health Care Research and DevelopmentCommunities of solution: The Folsom report revisited
2012, Annals of Family MedicineCitation Excerpt :The current fragmented1 US health care sector provides lower quality care than most industrialized nations and at a higher cost.2–4 Efforts to address this low value, including the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, cannot succeed without a reinvigoration of a primary-care–based, community-centered health system.5–9 The Affordable Care Act provides multiple provisions for supporting a patient-centered medical system, improving training and enhancing reimbursement of the primary care workforce, and enabling community involvement.
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