Primary Health and Safety

Primary Care

The Comprehensive Primary Health Care, Health Systems and Workforce program focuses on systems and workforce issues that will be of importance to the success of all other program areas. For example, the issue of appropriate models of community-based employment is key to the achievement of primary health outcomes in Chronic Diseases, Social and Emotional Wellbeing, Social Determinants and the Physical Environment, and Healthy Skin. Selective primary health care as conceived in the Walsh-Warren article proposed a selective attack on the most severe public health problems.  It was thought that this narrow and focused attack would maximize health improvements in developing countries. Integration is commonly perceived as a sensible approach to the delivery of primary health care.