2025年3月11日 · Primary health care (PHC) addresses the majority of a person’s health needs throughout their lifetime. This includes physical, mental and social well-being and it is people-centred rather than disease-centred. PHC is a whole-of-society approach that includes health promotion, disease prevention, treatment, rehabilitation and palliative care.

PHC involves prevention, health promotion, treatment, rehabilitation, and palliation. Another misperception is that PHC is “cheap” health care for the poor. Because PHC is based in the community, it is frequently the only health care available to poor or marginalized communities, who may not have access to a hospital.

2020年12月10日 · Primary Health Care (PHC) is the health care that is available to all the people at the first level of health care. According to World Health Organization (WHO), ‘Primary Health Care is a basic health care and is a whole of society approach to healthy well-being, focused on needs and priorities of individuals, families and communities.’

Primary health care (PHC) is an approach to health development. It is a broad and comprehensive concept that places national health development within the overall social and economic development, as embraced in its definition: “PHC is essential health care based on practical, scientifically

Primary health care (PHC) is a whole-of-society approach to effectively organise and strengthen national health systems to bring services for health and wellbeing closer to communities. [1]

Examines the impact of PHC on key dimensions of health system performance and presents evidence related to quality and efficiency, equity, access, financial protection and resilience, and environmental sustainability.

PHC is a whole-of-society approach to health. It aims to ensure the highest possible level of health and well-being and their equitable distribution by focusing on people’s needs and preferences as early as possible along the continuum of care and as close as feasible to people’s everyday environments.

2024年3月11日 · Primary health care (PHC) stands as the principal interface between the health system and communities – the locus where the formal health system meshes with people’s lives. More than that, primary health care can shape and reshape health systems to make them more accessible, more integrated and more sustainable.

Primary Health Care (PHC) is a whole of society approach to health and well-being that is focused on the needs and circumstances of individuals, their families, and communities. PHC principles guide health professionals in facilitating equitable conditions that redress social disadvantage and support good health in a socially just way.

6 天之前 · Scaling up primary health care (PHC) interventions across low and middle-income countries could save 60 million lives and increase average life expectancy by 3.7 years by 2030. An estimated 75% of the projected health gains from the Sustainable Development Goals could be achieved through PHC.