what is primary care? the iom defines primary care as “the provision of integrated, accessible...
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Discuss barriers in current PHC service. Identify the most promising & effective approaches to ensuring access to basic care. Explore examples of community-based models that have already proven successful. Help policymakers, leaders& funders recognize the array of opportunities for ensuring access to health care in KSA.TRANSCRIPT
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What is Primary Care?• The IOM defines primary care as
“the provision of integrated, accessible health care services by clinicians who are accountable for addressing a large majority of personal health care needs, developing a sustained partnership with patients, and practicing in the context of family & community.
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Why this forum?• Discuss barriers in current PHC service.• Identify the most promising & effective
approaches to ensuring access to basic care.• Explore examples of community-based models
that have already proven successful.• Help policymakers, leaders& funders
recognize the array of opportunities for ensuring access to health care in KSA.
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WHO’s 2008 World Health Report
emphasizes the importance of primary health care.
provides a critical assessment of health care systems throughout the world,
describes how all nations, regardless of national wealth, can benefit by enacting reforms organized around primary health care.
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ACP position A strong primary care infrastructure is an essential part of
high-functioning health systems in developed countries. ACP documented over 100 studies that confirm the value
of primary care. Primary care improves health outcomes, increases
quality, and reduces health care costs.Primary care physicians provide 52% of all ambulatory
care visits, 80% of patient visits for hypertension, and 69% of visits for both chronic obstructive pulmonary
disease and diabetes,
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Challenges
Primary care physicians make up only one-third of the U.S. physician workforce.
Compelling evidence demonstrates better health outcomes and decreased health care costs when primary care physicians make up over 50% of a nation’s physician supply.
American College of Physicians. Solutions to the Challenges Facing Primary Care Medicine. Philadelphia: American College of Physicians; 2009: Policy Monograph.
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