Enhancing health promotion and disease prevention in networked primary care
Publication year: 2018
Health systems are moving away from traditional
primary care (e.g., by increasingly shifting to group
practice and interprofessional teams rather than solo
practice primary-care providers), which is often siloed
and results in barriers to timely access to care.(1) The
Ministry of Health of British Columbia, which requested
this rapid synthesis, is undergoing system transformation
to better coordinate and potentially integrate primary
care with some and community care and public-health
services.(2) The transformation presents an important
opportunity to improve primary care and preventive
care services through improved management of clinical
conditions coupled with health promotion and diseaseprevention services.