
Primary health care
Nov 14, 2025 · Primary health care (PHC) addresses the majority of a person’s health needs throughout their lifetime. This includes physical, mental and social well-being and it is people …
What is PHC? - World Health Organization (WHO)
But PHC also goes beyond providing health care services to individuals. It is a whole-of-society approach that seeks to address the broader determinants of health, such as community-level …
Primary health care - World Health Organization (WHO)
Dec 5, 2025 · Primary health care is an approach to health and wellbeing centred on the needs and circumstances of individuals, families and communities. It addresses comprehensive and …
Primary health care - India
Dec 7, 2023 · Primary health care Primary health care Primary health care (PHC) is a holistic approach to health that includes promotive, preventive, curative, rehabilitative, and palliative …
Implementing the primary health care approach: a primer
May 15, 2024 · This Primer is about the 'how' of primary health care (PHC) and brings together best practices and knowledge that countries have generated through 'natural experiments' in …
Global momentum on primary health care: Time to unite
Jun 4, 2025 · A major push to accelerate progress on primary health care (PHC) was emphasized at a side event during the seventy-eighth World Health Assembly in Geneva on 20 May 2025. …
Primary health care - World Health Organization (WHO)
Oct 15, 2020 · Compassion and primary health care This document explores the critical role of compassion in primary health care (PHC), synthesizing findings from a five-year exploration, …
Primary health care measurement framework and indicators: …
Feb 28, 2022 · A PHC approach can help countries equitably maximize the level and distribution of health and well-being by focusing on people’s needs and preferences (both as individuals …
PHC measurement framework and indicators - World Health …
The PHC measurement framework and indicators and accompanying annex of technical specifications aims to support countries to track, monitor and improve PHC capacities and …
Connecting care: exploring Sweden’s innovative PHC model
Jan 6, 2025 · The PHC cottage hospital in Tärnaby is an entirely nurse-led facility. A PHC unit in Tärnaby, in Storuman Municipality, showcases the expanded roles of nurses in meeting basic …