Published 2012-06-01
“…The book provides evidence on the role of PHC in health systems, evidence of its impact on
population health, and compares the cost-effectiveness between countries with different forms and different degrees of implementation of this strategy, and propose a structure for measure it and set its attributes(1).The views of PHC, centered in the individual and in the population, provided the normative basis for evaluating it in a health system and contributed to the construction of the evaluation framework proposed by Starfield(1).The author also proposed a framework for evaluating the PHC which considered the concepts of the essential attributes and derivative measures of structure (capacity) and process (performance).The essential and exclusive attributes of the PHC include: access / care on first contact, longitudinality, integrality and coordination of care. …”
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