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Integrating primary care and public health: learning from the Brazilian way.
Harris, Matthew.
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  • Harris M; Academic Clinical Lecturer in Public Health, Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Imperial College London, UK.
London J Prim Care (Abingdon) ; 4(2): 126-32, 2012.
Article em En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-26265950
After a long history of vertical programming, specialisation and disintegration, general practitioners are now being urged to take on wider commissioning and public health responsibilities. The support structures are not in place, and integration of primary care with good public health practice is new territory. Innovation can be found in unlikely places. The Brazilian government has a 20-year history of a nationwide, integrated, comprehensive, community health programme that seamlessly bridges two important interfaces - between the community and primary care, and between primary care and public health. Some elements of this approach could be translated into the UK and would likely bring about improved clinical care, cost savings, improved understanding of local epidemiological variations and therefore commissioning. Understanding this approach is the first step to a new way of integrated commissioning, spanning and not reinforcing traditional clinical domains.
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Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE País/Região como assunto: America do sul / Brasil Idioma: En Revista: London J Prim Care (Abingdon) Ano de publicação: 2012 Tipo de documento: Article País de publicação: Estados Unidos

Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE País/Região como assunto: America do sul / Brasil Idioma: En Revista: London J Prim Care (Abingdon) Ano de publicação: 2012 Tipo de documento: Article País de publicação: Estados Unidos