Preventative and primary health care

Preventative and primary care is a broad ranging field, touching the largest spectrum of patient types and practice settings, from health fairs in the workplace to vaccines at retail clinics to annual physicals at a primary care clinic. The WHO identifies five ways that policy can improve primary care 1) increasing coverage to reduce disparities, 2) reforming delivery to meet needs and expectations better, 3) changing public policy to bring health care into other sectors, 4) leadership reform to improve collaborative policy dialogue, and 5) increase stakeholder participation.