Strengthening primary care with better transfer of information

Strengthening prevention in primary care.

Opportunities for prevention in primary health care are many, but healthcare systems – in particular, Australia’s fragmentation between levels of government, and fee-for-service funding base – can often frustrate even the most well-intentioned prevention efforts of primary health care practitioners, providers and funders. In this issue of Public Health Research & Practice, themed ‘Strengthening...

Primary Health Care Strengthening Strategies in Iran: A Realistic Review

Background and Aim: The Primary Health Care (PHC) system is the most comprehensive, equitable and efficient way to promote people's health and social welfare by providing preventive, curative, rehabilitative and palliatvie services in a place close to where people live and work. Iran's PHC system faces challenges that limit its effectiveness and efficiency. The aim of this study was to identify...

Improving information transfer from hospital to primary care

One of the good practice requirements set out in the National Service Framework for Older People is to improve the quality of the medicines information supplied to general practitioners and their staff when a patient is discharged from hospital. Such a requirement is pertinent, given that a considerable body of research has shown that there are medicines-related deficiencies in the hospital dis...

Strengthening Care Delivery in Primary Care Facilities: Perspectives of Facility Managers on the Immunization Program in Kenya

Background Primary healthcare facility managers (PHFMs) occupy a unique position in the primary healthcare system, as the only cadre combining frontline clinical activities with managerial responsibilities. Often serving as ‘street-level bureaucrats,’ their perspectives can provide contextually relevant information about interventions for strengthening primary healthcare delivery, yet suc...

Strengthening primary care: the role of clinical practice guidelines.