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NEWS - JUNE • 2021 BARBARA STARFIELD

11 Jun 2021

To make sure that it is easy in the pool, enjoying the peace and quiet before for our members to access Barbara’s extensive the work and busyness of the day. [...] The pandemic primary health care and primary care, which were exposed all the gaps in the system – and the lack drafted along with the declaration, since they of reliance on primary care to test, triage, were written with your words in forefront. [...] Despite the challenges, there has been progress There has also been an increased recognition that in raising the importance of primary care --- to achieve Universal Health Coverage (UHC) In recognition of the 40th anniversary of the “which means that all people have access to the signing of the Alma-Ata Declaration, the Global health services they need, when and where they Conference on Primary He. [...] The first encounter I had with Barbara Starfield – The stronger the role of primary care in the health and I think many in European primary care – was system, the better the population health was; and in 1994, when she published her paper ‘Is with primary care’s strong role in the health primary care essential?’ in the Lancet. [...] HER PAPER PRESENTED EVIDENCE IN A DOMAIN WHERE NO SOUND EVIDENCE AT THE TIME WAS AVAILABLE: ON THE CONTRIBUTION OF PRIMARY CARE TO THE HEALTH OF POPULATIONS, AND TO THE FUNCTIONING OF HEALTH SYSTEMS.
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