Performance Assessment of Primary Healthcare Worldwide: The International Experiences
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Health Care Sciences & Services".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2023) | Viewed by 4563
Special Issue Editor
Interests: health; health policy; hospital management; primary health care; long term care
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Dear Colleagues,
Primary healthcare is the main gateway to health systems around the world. Through this level of care comes planning, disease prevention, health promotion and curative activity. This Special Issue will be focused on performance evaluation at this level of care, as well as a demonstration of the reforms that each country has developed. This is a very interesting topic that allows us to reflect on current health systems and see where we can improve in terms of performance, from the historical importance of primary healthcare to the subject of the COVID-19 pandemic, through to the epidemiology of patients and the process of care at different levels in these various countries. In addition to the experience of primary care in terms of the relationship with hospitals and long-term care, it will be interesting to produce this publication with information on performance in a pandemic period.
- Reforms in primary healthcare;
- Performance of primary healthcare in the COVID-19 pandemic;
- Integration between primary and hospital healthcare;
- Performance of primary healthcare in health promotion activities;
- Health in all policies;
- Primary healthcare as a gateway to the health system;
- Performance of primary healthcare in the COVID-19 healthcare process;
- Performance vs. funding in primary healthcare.
Dr. Alexandre Morais Nunes
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- performance
- primary healthcare
- international experiences
- access
- efficiency
- COVID-19
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