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Primary Healthcare as a Global Healthcare Concept

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The Palgrave International Handbook of Healthcare Policy and Governance

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Primary healthcare (PHC) has been in ascendance on the global healthcare agenda, and with good reason (Haggerty et al, 2013; Starfield et al., 2005; WHO, 2008). Yet the journey towards building PHC-focused health systems and policies has not been straightforward and there is considerable diversity across countries. Some, such as England, appear to be pursuing competition and patient choice combined with devolution of purchasing budgets to general practitioners (GPs) in order to heighten the focus on PHC; others have aimed for collaboration among the different parts of the healthcare system in order to improve service integration and, especially, targeting PHC as the place of first contact with the healthcare system and of patient care coordination.

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  1. Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago, New Zealand

    Robin Gauld (Professor of Health Policy and Director of the Centre for Health Systems in the Department of Preventive and Social Medicine)

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  1. Karolinska Institutet, Sweden

    Ellen Kuhlmann

  2. University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

    Robert H. Blank (Adjunct Professor) (Adjunct Professor)

  3. Institute of Population Health and the Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa, Canada

    Ivy Lynn Bourgeault (Professor) (Professor)

  4. University of Siegen, Germany

    Claus Wendt (Professor of Sociology of Health and Healthcare Systems) (Professor of Sociology of Health and Healthcare Systems)

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Gauld, R. (2015). Primary Healthcare as a Global Healthcare Concept. In: Kuhlmann, E., Blank, R.H., Bourgeault, I.L., Wendt, C. (eds) The Palgrave International Handbook of Healthcare Policy and Governance. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137384935_5

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