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Contributing barriers to loss to follow up from antenatal care services in villages around Addis Ababa: a qualitative study

open access: yesBMC Women's Health, 2021
Background Problems during pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum are the major contributors to maternal and perinatal morbidity and mortality. Focused antenatal care is an intervention set to provide basic services for pregnant women, to reduce morbidity ...
Zergu Tafesse Tsegaye   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Epidemiology Characteristics of COVID-19 Infection Amongst Primary Health Care Workers in Qatar: March-October 2020

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health, 2021
Background: COVID-19 transmission was significant among Healthcare workers worldwide. In March 2020, Qatar started reporting numbers of COVID-19 positive cases among workers in Primary Health Care Corporation (PHCC). The study estimates the burden of the
Mohamed Ghaith Al-Kuwari   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

The breadth of primary care: a systematic literature review of its core dimensions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Background: Even though there is general agreement that primary care is the linchpin of effective health care delivery, to date no efforts have been made to systematically review the scientific evidence supporting this supposition.
A Aakvik   +102 more
core   +8 more sources

Increasing the Capacity of Primary Care Through Enabling Technology. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Primary care is the foundation of effective and high-quality health care. The role of primary care clinicians has expanded to encompass coordination of care across multiple providers and management of more patients with complex conditions.
Nesbitt, Thomas S, Young, Heather M
core   +1 more source

Primary care groups - Modernising primary and community health services [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
Developing primary and community health services is a key component of the government's plans for modernising the NHS. Primary care groups and trusts have a vital part to play in overcoming the variability, fragmentation, and isolation that have ...
Dowswell, T., Leese, B., Wilkin, D.
core   +1 more source

The receipt of information by family physicians about their patient’s emergency department visits: a record linkage study of electronic medical records to health administrative data

open access: yesBMC Family Practice, 2021
Background Canadians are known to be frequent users of emergency department (ED) care. However, the exchange of information from ED visits to family physicians (FPs) is not well known.
Liisa Jaakkimainen   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Potentially severe drug–drug interactions among older people and associations in assisted living facilities in Finland: a cross-sectional study

open access: yesScandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care, 2016
Objective: This study aims to assess potentially severe class D drug–drug interactions (DDDIs) in residents 65 years or older in assisted living facilities with the use of a Swedish and Finnish drug–drug interaction database (SFINX).
Mariko Teramura-Grönblad   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Can social prescribing provide the missing link? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Background: The voluntary sector has long been recognised as making an important contribution to individual and community health. In the UK, however, the links between primary health care services and the voluntary and community sector are often ...
HIGGINGS, T   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Primary Oral Health Care [PDF]

open access: yesMedical Principles and Practice, 2014
The aim of this review was to describe the background and evolution of primary oral health care (POHC), including the development of an oral health policy, by identifying the resources necessary for oral health services, reviewing the evidence of the effectiveness of oral health promotion and education, providing essential oral health care, and ...
openaire   +2 more sources

The organisation and delivery of health improvement in general practice and primary care: a scoping study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Background This project examines the organisation and delivery of health improvement activities by and within general practice and the primary health-care team. The project was designed to examine who delivers these interventions, where they are located,
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core   +3 more sources

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