Community health workers have potential to enhance primary care access and quality, but
remain underutilized. To provide guidance on their integration, we characterized roles and …

Despite a half century of radical changes in medical practice, the teaching/learning
experience of medical students has remained remarkably similar. At the same time, medical …

Multiple promising but unsustainable attempts have been made to maintain programs
integrating primary care and public health since the middle of the last century. During the …

Since its inception in rural, pre-apartheid South Africa, community-oriented primary care
(COPC) has intrigued and informed public health and primary care leaders worldwide …

Medical schools vary by nation and by culture but, for students, the experience appears to
be very similar. Also, despite a half‐century of radical changes in medical practice …

BACKGROUND Community-oriented primary care (COPC) is a systematic approach to
health care based upon principles derived from epidemiology, primary care, preventive …

RIMARY HEALTH care research and practice are in an important period of transition with
respect to the roles that communities play in the health of people. Both practitioners and …

Community oriented primary care is a commonly used term applied to a variety of situations
and programs. Its use frequently extends beyond an understanding of its specific elements …

Background: Re-engineering primary health care is a cornerstone of the health sector reform
initiated nationally in South Africa in 2009. Using the concept of ward based NGO-run health …

This book is dedicated to the people of rural America whose struggle to make community
meaningful provides important lessons. It includes the contributors' prescription for the …