Primary Care

Overview

Primary care is the first level of contact with the health system, providing accessible, continuous, comprehensive, and coordinated care for individuals and communities across the life course. Typically delivered by general practitioners, family physicians, and primary-care teams, it emphasizes prevention, early detection, management of acute and chronic conditions, health promotion, and appropriate referral, and is widely regarded as foundational to effective, equitable, and efficient health systems. Models such as the patient-centered medical home and technology-enhanced and community-based approaches aim to strengthen its reach and quality. Public Health International publishes peer-reviewed research relevant to primary care, including studies of childhood-injury management by primary caregivers, technology-enhanced lifestyle intervention for prediabetes patients, population-based colorectal cancer screening, screening and linkage to pre-exposure prophylaxis in primary care, implementation of maternal and child health care by community health workers, care of chronic disease and frail patients in general practice, and patient-centered medical home models. This work examines prevention, screening, chronic-disease management, and service delivery at the primary-care level, reflecting the field's emphasis on first-contact care, continuity, and community-oriented approaches as central to improving population health and reducing reliance on higher-cost hospital-based services.

Research published in this journal

12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

How this research is being cited

The 12 articles above have been cited 56 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Nov 2026.

• Impact of establishing a comprehensive tobacco cessation service at a primary healthcare setting in the quit attempts: a quality improvement project
  2026 · BMJ Open Quality
• Health Literacy, Self-Care Behaviors, and Associated Factors Among Adult Diabetes Attending East Arsi Zone Public Hospitals, Ethiopia: Cross-Sectional Study
  2026 · Sage Open Nursing
• Too few enablers, too many obstacles: Systematic review and meta-synthesis of barriers and facilitators to providing effective maternal healthcare in Africa
  2026 · International Journal of Africa Nursing Sciences
• Barreiras e facilitadores à implementação da profilaxia pré-exposição ao HIV na Atenção Primária à Saúde
  2026 · Revista Gaúcha de Enfermagem
• Barriers and facilitators to the implementation of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis in primary health care
  2026 · Revista Gaúcha de Enfermagem
• Health gender equality and poverty reduction as integrated pathways to achieving SDG 3 in sub–Saharan Africa
  2026 · Discover Social Science and Health
• HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis practices in Florida, USA: Clinicians’ perceptions of initiation, risk identification, barriers, and facilitators
  2026 · PLOS One
• Assessing an Implementation Science Strategy to Improve PrEP Primary Care Serving Black and Latino Communities
  2026 · AIDS and Behavior

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