Developing measures to capture the true value of primary care

Tim C. olde Hartman; Andrew Bazemore; Rebecca Etz; Ryuki Kassai; Michael Kidd; Robert L. Phillips; Martin Roland; Kees Van Boven; Chris van Weel; Felicity Goodyear-Smith

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Developing measures to capture the true value of primary care

Tim C. olde Hartman, Andrew Bazemore, Rebecca Etz, Ryuki Kassai, Michael Kidd, Robert L. Phillips, Martin Roland, Kees Van Boven, Chris van Weel, Felicity Goodyear-Smith

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Primary care (PC) is an essential building block for any high quality healthcare system, and has a particularly positive impact on vulnerable patients. It contributes to the overall performance of health systems, and countries that reorient their health system towards PC are better prepared to achieve universal health coverage. Monitoring the actual performance of PC in health systems is essential health policy to support PC. However, current indicators are often too narrowly defined to account for quality of care in the complex populations with which PC deals. This article reviews a number of conceptual frameworks developed to capture PC values in robust measures and indicators that can inform policy and practice performance. Each have benefits and limitations. Further work is needed to develop meaningful primary health care (PHC) and PC measures to inform strategic action by policymakers and governments for improved overall performance of health systems.

Original language	English
Article number	BJGPO.2020.0152
Number of pages	8
Journal	BJGP Open
Volume	5
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3399/BJGPO.2020.0152
Publication status	Published - Apr 2021
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

delivery of health care
health policy
measures
primary health care
universal health coverage

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Developing measures to capture the true value of primary care

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