Empowering primary healthcare institutions against COVID-19 pandemic: A health system-based approach

Primary health care institutions (PHCIs) are an essential foundation for the national response to COVID-19 disease in India. With the soaring number of confirmed cases, the health system is currently under unprecedented stress. In this scenario, there is a pressing need for empowering PHCIs in COVID...

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Autores principales: Subba, Sonu H., Pradhan, Somen Kumar, Sahoo, Bimal Kumar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2021
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Editorial
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8138421/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34041046
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_1416_20
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Sumario:Primary health care institutions (PHCIs) are an essential foundation for the national response to COVID-19 disease in India. With the soaring number of confirmed cases, the health system is currently under unprecedented stress. In this scenario, there is a pressing need for empowering PHCIs in COVID-19 preparedness and response. The World Health Organization's (WHO) “Health system building block” approach is a classic model, which can work as a road map for the national health system in the process of empowering PHCIs against COVID-19 as well as other upcoming global and regional public health emergencies.

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