Primary Health Care and Family Medicine

Reflections on Primary Health Care and Family Medicine in Botswana

Copyright: © 2014. The Authors. Licensee: AOSIS OpenJournals. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License. Primary Care should be the ‘central function and main focus of a country’s health system‘.1 The Ouagadougu Declaration similarly states that the vehicle for achieving the Millennium Development Goals and addressing the health of African nations is Primary Health Ca...

Public health medicine and primary care.

Primary Health Care and Narrative Medicine.

Primary health care has received a lot of attention since the Alma Ata Conference, convened by the World Health Organization in 1978. Key to the strategy to improve health care outlined at the Alma Ata conference is citizen participation in every phase of service delivery. Although the goals of primary health care have not been achieved, the addition of narrative medicine may facilitate these e...

Laboratory medicine in primary health care.

A LTHOUGH simple laboratory tests have been performed At'1.in primary health care for many years, recent technological developments have made it possible to do a much wider range of tests nearer the patient ('near patient testing').'-3 Many of these tests require little equipment and a non-technical person such as a nurse can often obtain a result within a few minutes. In the United States at l...

Preceptorship in Family and Community Medicine: challenges and achievements in a Primary Health Care in progress.

Strengthening Primary Health Care (PHC) relies directly on training medical specialists in primary care. This text aims to report the Family Medicine training experiences in Rio de Janeiro between 2008 and 2016. It brings to reflection the development of preceptors in medical specialization through an experience report on three Family Medicine medical residency programs, namely, the Municipal H...