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Primary health care
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Important Resources for Primary health care:
Primary Health Care is a system of organizing health care to the community which includes the provision of curative services, preventive services, health promotion and rehabilitative services at a cost that the state and the community can afford. It was adopted as the strategy for provision of health services in the member states of the WHO in the Alma Ata Declaration in 1978.
Making Primary Care the Primary Focus
In this BigThink video below, medical expert Ron Dixon says we need to eliminate perverse incentives from healthcare and start paying for performance and quality:
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George Halvorson (Chairman & CEO, Kaiser Permanente) talks about Kaiser Permanente, an all-encompassing health care entity: payer, medical group, hospital and pharmacy, lab and equipment owner. Halvorson explains the secret to the company’s efficiencies in this BigThink video "You’ve Got Mail. It’s Your Doctor.":
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