Frontiers in Medicine | |
Maintaining a Sufficient Primary Care Workforce: A Problem We Should Not Have | |
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Arch G. Mainous1  III1  | |
[1] Departments of Health Services Research, Management & Policy and Community Health and Family Medicine, University of Florida, United States | |
关键词: primary care/general practice; setting of care; workforce (manpower); health policy; specialty choice; family medicine; | |
DOI : 10.3389/fmed.2020.638894 | |
学科分类:社会科学、人文和艺术(综合) | |
来源: Frontiers | |
【 摘 要 】
Primary care has a positive impact on health equity, cost reduction, and improved quality of care (1–3). Primary care is characterized by the Cs of continuity, coordination of care, comprehensiveness and first contact care. Because of these characteristics, primary providers play a key role in the provision of care. For example, both patients and providers highly value continuity of care, a defining characteristic of primary care and a feature related to lower costs and better outcomes (2, 4–6). Consequently, strengthening primary care is a key policy strategy to improve the outcomes of health care delivery.
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