Effective primary health care is a critical part of ensuring health for all. To that end, leaders in many countries are eager to build, reform, and strengthen their primary health care systems to deliver high-quality, integrated, and patient-centered care. The question is, how?
In a sweeping new effort, 76 researchers, practitioners, and policy-makers from 19 countries identified the gaps in global knowledge about what works in primary health care and how to build effective primary health care systems and prioritized a new research agenda that focuses on four key areas:
· organization and models of care
· quality, safety, and performance management
· policy and governance
· financing of primary health care systems
The findings are published in 14 articles in a special issue of BMJ Global Health, Strengthening primary health care through research: Prioritized knowledge needs to achieve the promise of the Astana Declaration. https://gh.bmj.com/content/4/Suppl_8
Dr. Nazar Elfaki
Polices & Health Systems Unit
MOH, Sultanate of Oman
M: +96892308270
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