Community healthcare is the delivery of health services, prevention and promotion within the settings where people live, oriented to the needs of a defined population rather than to individual hospital encounters alone. Closely tied to primary care and Family Medicine, it emphasises accessibility, continuity, coordi…
Community healthcare is the delivery of health services, prevention and promotion within the settings where people live, oriented to the needs of a defined population rather than to individual hospital encounters alone. Closely tied to primary care and Family Medicine, it emphasises accessibility, continuity, coordination and equity, often relying on community health workers, local facilities and outreach to reach underserved groups. Its goals include preventing disease, managing chronic conditions, supporting maternal and child health, and reducing barriers to care. The articles in this collection examine these themes across diverse health systems. Several focus on the community health workforce and service delivery, including barriers and facilitators to maternal and child health care provided by community health workers and strategies for improving care quality in private facilities. Others address access and equity, examining facilitators and barriers to care among the elderly, primary care and quality of life in older people with non-communicable diseases, and recruitment challenges in community-based prevention research. Population-level concerns such as nutritional status of women and children, tuberculosis control, and collaborative blood-management systems further illustrate the field's reach. Together these contributions present community healthcare as a population-centred approach in which workforce capacity, access, prevention and coordinated services combine to improve health outcomes, particularly for vulnerable and resource-limited communities.
10 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.
The 10 articles above have been cited 63 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.
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