Public health readiness and role in transformation to a community-based primary healthcare system

Healthc Pap. 2013;13(3):64-70; discussion 85-9. doi: 10.12927/hcpap.2014.23675.

Abstract

Millar et al. provide a high-level vision for transforming primary care into a community-based primary healthcare system, arguing that public health involvement is critical to the success of this transformation. The authors discuss a number of approaches to mitigate challenges to public health's readiness to participate. In this commentary, the author addresses selected points encouraging the avoidance of high-level conceptual language, a focus on specific value-added linkages and addressing the complex range of critical success factors needed to effect this transformation.

Publication types

  • Comment

MeSH terms

  • Community Health Services / economics*
  • Health Care Reform / economics*
  • Humans
  • Primary Health Care / economics*
  • Public Health Administration / economics*
  • Quality Assurance, Health Care / economics*