There is considerable evidence of integration activities between primary care clinics and LHDs. Current activities focus on care coordination for high-risk chronic care patients and promoting hypertension, diabetes, and cancer screening. Six LHDs have a formal contract or memorandum of understanding with one or more clinics, and at least two LHDs are embedding nurses within clinics. Although LHDs felt there were many benefits to integration and emerging opportunities, significant barriers persis...

The ultimate aim of a health care system is progression of community health in an equal manner and various factors can be contributed in achieving it. Many health policy makers or managers try to produce evidences to be used in the health care system for this goal and they need many types of scientific documents to make well-informed decisions. For this reason, the importance of evidence-based health policy making as a complicated task that affects many various individual and organizational acti...

Primary Care (PHC) is the gateway to the National Health Service in Spain and waiting lists and hospital collapses, such as those currently seen in the different affected countries, will greatly depend on its operation. The main elements that characterize the comprehensive care model based on PHC (and that make them different from the other care models) are three. In a situation of health and social crisis such as the one we are experiencing due to the coronavirus pandemic, the health systems of...