Direct primary care is a promising, market-based alternative to the fee-for-service payment structure that shapes doctor–patient relationships in America. Instead of billing patients and insurers service by service, direct primary care doctors charge their patients a periodic, prenegotiated...

Learning Objectives: To introduce the participants with the principles, implementation tools and challenges of the Primary Health Care reform in Albania. Background: As of end 2006, the Primary Health Care (PHC) system in Albania was managed centrally, with little incentive or capacity for...

The World Health Assembly adapted resolution 29.74 requesting WHO to develop a programme of health technology relating to primary health care and rural development as part of the overall primary health care programme (WHA, 1976). This resolution urged member-states to give due attention to the...

The health sector remains a vital tool for sustainable development of any nation and therefore investment in this sector cannot be overemphasized. The present state of Primary Health Care (PHC) system in Nigeria is alarming, with only about 20% out of the 30,000 PHC facilities relatively...

This paper uses the gradual implementation of a primary health care intervention in Costa Rica to examine the long-term effect of primary health care on mortality. Nine years after opening a primary health care center, known as a Health Area, there was an associated 13 % reduction in...

Very few topics in global health have been as controversial as primary health care since it was introduced half a century ago as the panacea for providing health care to the masses. Yet the debate continues because of the controversy over what it really means, how it should be conceptualized,...

Soon after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a pandemic, the World Bank made available rapid financing to strengthen countries' ability to respond to COVID-19 through a multiphase programmatic approach (MPA). The MPA's immediate objective is to prevent, detect, and respond to the...