1. Primary health care and primary care: A confusion of philosophies
- Author
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Carmen Eribes, Teresa C. Juarbe, Afaf Ibrahim Meleis, Susan Proctor, Muriel Shaul, Donelle Barnes, Martha Nelson, and Linda M. Sawyer
- Subjects
medicine.medical_specialty ,Primary Health Care ,business.industry ,Primary health care ,Primary care ,Nursing ,Family medicine ,Health care ,Self care ,medicine ,Humans ,Organizational Objectives ,Philosophy, Nursing ,Primary Nursing ,Health care reform ,Philosophy, Medical ,medicine.symptom ,business ,General Nursing ,Primary nursing ,Confusion - Abstract
The internationally accepted definition of PHC is qualitatively different from that of PC. Both PC, which produces professionally and institutionally driven services, and PHC, which creates community-based and community-driven services, can serve Nursing's Agenda for Health Care Reform.
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- 1995