The Growing Challenge of Chronic Kidney Disease: An Overview of Current Knowledge by Rikke Borg, Nicholas Carlson, Jens Søndergaard, Frederik Persson

“…This will also be relevant for primary care physicians as many patients with CKD have their family physician as their primary health care professional handling kidney function preservation. …”
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Invert classroom method for gerontogeriatric training in Medicine students by Juan Carlos Baster Moro, Luis Aníbal Alonso Betancourt, Silvia María Pérez Pérez

“…<br /><strong>Results:</strong> an inverted classroom method is provided for the gerontogeriatric training of Medicine students that combines face-to-face and virtual modalities from the interaction between the forms of organization of medical teaching and education at work in the Primary Health Care: consultation and home field visit.<br /><strong>Conclusions:</strong> the inverted classroom is a context that favors the gerontogeriatric training of the Medicine student since it revitalizes and transforms the traditional conceptions and approaches of teaching-learning, by achieving a greater student role, increased autonomy, instantaneous, interconnection, multimedia and the creativity and innovation of the student in the solution of health problems of the elderly, as well as the use of the resources and virtual learning environments’ potential that it possesses, combining face-to-face and virtual teaching modalities.…”
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Stakeholder Perspectives on Community Participation and Ownership in Community Mental Health Policy and Services: Mixed Methods Study in Ghana by Peter Badimak Yaro, Philip Teg-NefaahTabong, Emmanual Asampong

“…Addressing the mental healthcare needs of the population at the Primary Health Care (PHC) level has gained global consensus as a key strategy to realising the mental health targets of the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), especially SDG3. …”
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Progress in programmatic management of drug-resistant TB, WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region, 2018-2023 by K. Bennani, M. van den Boom, M.G. ElMedrek, Y. Hutin

“…They must now enhance diagnostic capacity using WHO-recommended diagnostics, decentralise services while integrating them into primary health care, and prioritise the BPaL(M) regimen.…”
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Exploring primary care physicians’ role in travel medicine: a scoping review of knowledge, practices, and training by Ayman Al-Dahshan, Salma Ahmed, Anwar Joudeh, Vahe Kehyayan

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Prevalence, Awareness, Treatment, and Control of Hypertension and Its Risk Factors in (Central) Vietnam by Ho Anh Hien, Nguyen Minh Tam, Vo Tam, Anselme Derese, Dirk Devroey

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Analyzing Policymaking for Tuberculosis Control in Nigeria by Nura M. R. Ahmad, Cristina Montañola-Sales, Clara Prats, Mustapha Musa, Daniel López, Josep Casanovas-Garcia

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Characterization of the geriatric patient with thyroid nodules by Jessica González Manreza, Gloría María Monné Rodríguez, Carlos Gaspar de Zayas Galván, Ángela Ramírez Torres, Erifran Hidalgo Garcés

“…<br /><strong>Conclusions:</strong> the high prevalence of thyroid diseases, especially in the elderly, makes it necessary to perform a screening for ultrasound diagnosis, as it is a beneficial, reliable and low-cost diagnostic test in Primary Health Care.</p>…”
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Migrant women’s perception toward cervical and breast cancer screening in Türkiye: a qualitative analysis by Zeynep Meva Altaş, Mehmet Akif Sezerol

“…Methods The women were recruited from Extended Migrant Health Centre, which is a primary health care institution in Istanbul. In August 2024, face-to-face interviews were conducted using an open-ended, semi-structured question form administered by a nurse experienced in qualitative research. …”
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Evidence-Based Practice in Primary Care Occupational Therapy: A Cross-Sectional Survey in Sweden by Ann-Charlotte Lindström, Susanne Bernhardsson

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Tuberculosis commodities supply chain performance in the WHO African region: A scoping review. by Alison T Mhazo, Stanford Miyango, Lifton Palani, Charles C Maponga

“…The strengths we found included the existence of pooled procurement mechanisms [PPM], availability of funding through external sources, existence of logistics management information systems [LMIS] and integration of PSM systems into primary health care. The main challenge was frequent stock outs which mainly affected medicines for treating TB in children and those for preventing TB. …”
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Community health worker and caregiver experiences and perceptions of a multimodal handheld pulse oximeter used in sick child consultations in rural Burundi: A qualitative evaluatio... by Sarah Bauler, Leocadie Nivyindika, Titus Kirwa, Vital Habonimana, Dionis Nizigiyimana, Miles A Kirby, Asrat Tolossa

“…Community Health Workers (CHWs) in low- and middle-income countries are essential in providing primary health care to remote communities. However, due to limited diagnostic tools, CHWs often struggle to correctly identify childhood illnesses, especially pneumonia. …”
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First Report of the HEV Seroprevalence and the Risk Factor Assessment in the West Bank, Palestine, during the Period of 2015–2017 by Kamal Dumaidi, Alaa M. Abudamous, Rasmi Abu-Helu, Hanan Al-Jawabreh, Yazan Dumaidi, Amer Al-Jawabreh

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Enfermedad pulmonar obstructiva crónica by Reinaldo Pino Blanco, Orestes Álvarez Fernández, Juan De Dios Rivero Berovides

“…</p><p>Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease has become one of the most frequently treated chronic diseases in primary health care. High rates of morbidity and mortality are worldwide related to this disease. …”
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Characterization of the attention to the Occupational Health in the Policlínico Juan José Apolinaire Pennini. Cienfuegos 2018. by Yoleysi Arteaga Cuéllar, Pedro Luis Veliz Martínez, Sarah Hernánez Malpica, Noelia Castro Ladrón de Guevara, Leticia Castro Morejón, Pedro Ricardo Borges Cabrera

“…<p><strong>Background:</strong> considering that work accidents constitute a large source of cost generation and that in Cuba there is an aging age distribution, health care for workers is a fundamental process in primary health care.<br /><strong>Objective:</strong> to characterize occupational health care at the Juan José Apolinaire Pennine Polyclinic in Cienfuegos.…”
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The landscape of family medicine in India - A cross-sectional survey study. by Archna Gupta, Raman Kumar, Ramakrishna Prasad, Sunil Abraham, Nisanth Menon Nedungalaparambil, Paul Krueger, Carolyn Steele Gray, Megan Landes, Sanjeev Sridharan, Onil Bhattacharyya

“…Postgraduate family medicine training should be scaled up to support improving gaps seen in primary care and primary health care.…”
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Negative experiences with primary care services in Norway expressed in patient and next-of-kin complaints – a qualitative study by Alison Axisa Eriksen, Terje Emil Fredwall, Inger Beate Larsen

“…Abstract Background Primary health care has been central to achieving universal health coverage. …”
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Life expectancy and health care spending in South Asia: An econometric analysis. by Bharat Ram Dhungana, Jitendra Kumar Singh, Samrat Dhungana

“…Out-of-pocket expenses remain the primary health care funding source in many South Asian nations. …”
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Effect of Intervention in Subjects with High Risk of Diabetes Mellitus in Pakistan by Muhammad Zafar Iqbal Hydrie, Abdul Basit, A. Samad Shera, Akhtar Hussain

“…We recommend lifestyle advice and followup should be incorporated in primary health care.…”
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Comparing apples with apples: A proposed taxonomy for "Community Health Workers" and other front-line health workers for international comparisons. by Stephen Hodgins, Uta Lehmann, Henry Perry, Nicholas Leydon, Kerry Scott, Smisha Agarwal, Hannah Marcus, Rajani Ved, Elijah Olivas, Madeleine Ballard, Dickson Mbewe, Margaret Odera, Sherlie Petit Homme, Benard Otieno, Pasipano Wutete, Angeline Chikumba, Prossy Muyingo, John Kyakuha, Emmanuel Harcourt, Morseda Chowdhury, David Musoke, Thadee Niyoyitungira, Abimbola Olaniran, John Koku-Awoonor Williams, Lívia Milena Barbosa de Deus E Méllo, Romário Correia Dos Santos, Isabela Cardoso de Matos Pinto, Ram Shrestha, Salim Sadruddin, Melanie Morrow, Eric Sarriot, Maryse Kok, Bhanu Pratap

“…This paper proposes a taxonomy for Community Health Workers (CHWs) and others engaged in front-line community health activities, encompassing formally-employed workers extending government primary health care (PHC) service delivery as well as a range of other actors with roles at the nexus of government PHC and communities. …”
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