HSS 3105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Knowledge Management, Patient Participation, Global Health
14 Oct 2017
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Primary health care [ rst contact care] example: family doctor, walk in clinic, dentist. She uses primary care and primary health care interchangeably. Chiropractors are the third most common primary hpc after physicians and dentists. Disease prevention and health promotion are key aspects of primary health care. Phc tends to deal with more basic levels of health care rather than more specialized aspects [because they are your rst care contact] Country"s with access to really goo primary health care tend to have overall healthier populations. A really strong primary health care system will provide on going support. It also includes family intervention if needed and even community based intervention. Seeing more family health networks, and family health teams, walk in clinics, a lot more funding funnelled into community health centres. These are all examples of how our health care system in ontario is changing. People felt there weren"t speci c targets that could be met [the goals were too broad]
