Refugees tend to have greater vulnerability compared to the general population reporting greater need for physical, emotional, or dental problems compared to the general population. Despite the importance of creating strong primary care supports for these patients, it has been demonstrated that there is a significant gap in accessing primary care providers who are willi...

BACKGROUND In 2009, the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) launched the Primary Healthcare (PHC) accreditation program to improve quality across the continuum of care. The MOPH, with the support of Accreditation Canada, conducted the accreditation survey in 25 PHC centers in 2012. This paper aims to gain a better understanding of the impact of accreditation on quality of care as perceive...

BACKGROUND There are conflicting reports of antiretroviral therapy (ART) effectiveness comparisons between primary healthcare (PHC) facilities and hospitals in low-income settings. This comparison has not been evaluated on a broad scale in South Africa. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS A retrospective cohort study was conducted including ART-naïve adults from 59 facilities in four provinces in ...

INTRODUCTION In 2003, the Quebec government made important changes in its primary healthcare (PHC) system. This reform included the creation of new models of PHC, Family Medicine Groups (e.g. multidisciplinary health teams with extended opening hours and enrolment of patients) and Network Clinics (clinics providing access to investigation and specialist services). Considering that equity is one...

Objective Primary healthcare (PHC) quality improvement (QI) initiatives are designed to improve patient care and health outcomes. We evaluated the Quality Improvement and Innovation Partnership (QIIP), an Ontario-wide PHC QI program on access to care, diabetes management and colorectal cancer screening. This manuscript highlights the impact of QIIP on diabetes outcomes and associated vascular r...

background: suicide prevention is one of the priorities in policies of iranian ministry of health and medical education (mhme). the suicide prevention program had two main parts of identifying and treatment of the depressed and suicide high risk individuals by primary health care (phc) network. the main aim of this study was to evaluate the results of integration of the program into phc network...

The purpose of the study was to explore the challenges encountered in implementing the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI)strategy guidelines by primary healthcare (PHC) nurses at first level healthcare facilities in the Francistown area of Botswana. An exploratory, descriptive and quantitative research design was used and data were collected using self-administered questionnaires...

BACKGROUND Major health sector reform and the need for baseline measures of performance to determine impact. AIM Baseline audit of primary healthcare (PHC) performance. SETTING Cape Town and Cape Winelands (rural) PHC facilities (PCFs) in Western Cape Province, South Africa. METHOD The South African cross-culturally validated ZA PCAT to audit PHC performance on 11 subdomains associated wi...

BACKGROUND Multimorbidity in non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is a complex global healthcare challenge that is becoming increasingly prevalent. In Africa, comorbidity of communicable diseases and NCDs is also increasing. OBJECTIVES To evaluate the extent of multimorbidity among patients with NCDs in South African (SA) primary healthcare (PHC). METHODS A dataset obtained from a previous morb...