Research Topic · Peer-Reviewed

Primary Health Care

Primary health care is an approach to organising health that provides essential, first-contact care to individuals, families, and communities, and serves as the foundation of an effective and equitable health system. It emphasises accessible, comprehensive, continuous, and coordinated services that address the major…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 12 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 54× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2693-1176 🗓 Reviewed July 2026

Overview

Primary health care is an approach to organising health that provides essential, first-contact care to individuals, families, and communities, and serves as the foundation of an effective and equitable health system. It emphasises accessible, comprehensive, continuous, and coordinated services that address the majority of a population's health needs across the life course, integrating health promotion, disease prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, and palliative care. Grounded in principles of universal access, community participation, intersectoral action, and appropriate use of resources, primary health care aims to reach all people regardless of socioeconomic status or geographic location, often through community health workers and locally based services. It encompasses maternal and child health, management of communicable and non-communicable diseases, screening and early detection, and the delivery of basic clinical and obstetric care, and its strength influences quality of life, particularly for older people and those with chronic conditions. Barriers to access, including distance, cost, and service availability, and the engagement and training of frontline workers are central concerns for its effectiveness. Research relevant to this topic examines the organisation and quality of primary-care services, accessibility and barriers to uptake across rural and underserved communities, the role of community health workers, and strategies, including screening and harm-reduction programmes, that extend comprehensive first-level care.

Research published in this journal

12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

2017

Profile of Teenage Pregnancy in Hadramout, Yemen

Salim Bin Ghouth AbdullaCorresponding author
Professor, Department of Community medicine, Hadramout University, Yemen.
Exact topic Women's Reproductive Health Cited by 2 doi:10.14302/issn.2381-862X.jwrh-16-1292

How this research is being cited

The 12 articles above have been cited 54 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

A sample of recent works citing this journal's research on Primary Health Care, linking to each citing work.

Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in International Journal of Global Health (ISSN 2693-1176).

Journal editorial board
Andrew Hall · United Kingdom Richard Bright · Australia Zhiqiang Feng · United Kingdom

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