COMMUNITY-ORIENTED PRIMARY CARE AND PRIMARY HEALTH CARE
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Community-oriented primary care.
Community-oriented primary care (COPC) combines elements of clinical medicine and public health to provide an effective strategy in tackling today's health problems. A primary care practice or program that develops a partnership with an identified community to describe and prioritize health concerns and design and monitor the impact of an intervention can make a difference to the health of a co...
متن کاملPioneering community-oriented primary care.
This is a retrospective report on the importance of Kark and Cassel's 1952 paper on community-oriented primary care (COPC). In 1978, WHO and UNICEF endorsed COPC. However, the ideas girding and framing this approach had first been given full expression in practice some four decades earlier. In Depression-Era South Africa, Sidney Kark, a leader of the National Department of Health, converted ...
متن کامل[Community-oriented primary care: a public health model in primary care].
The community-oriented primary care (COPC) model strives to efficiently distribute, organize, and systematize existing health care resources. In addition to promoting healthy lifestyles within the community, the COPC model enables the health care team and the community to cooperate in identifying and prioritizing health issues. Together they develop and implement prevention and treatment plans ...
متن کاملFAMILY PRACTICE AND THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM Community-Oriented Primary Care: Historical Perspective
Background: Community-oriented primary care (COPC) is a systematic approach to health care based upon principles derived from epidemiology, primary care, preventive medicine, and health promotion. We describe the development of COPC from an historical perspective. A critical assessment of current trends and implication for physician education and practice of COPC will be discussed in a companio...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Public Health
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0090-0036,1541-0048
DOI: 10.2105/ajph.2004.060822