Despite all this, primary health care remains good, by the standards of the region.
Today, millions of Americans still have difficulty accessing primary health care, and many of them are uninsured.
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At the time of Mr Fellows' death, Kovvali was working as a self-employed contractor for Primecare, a primary health care services provider.
Bolton Primary Health Care Trust did not pay for Mr Norburn's treatment.
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Gautam argues that Asia's governments can do much more than they are in the areas of social services, primary health care and education.
It plans to keep major facilities under government control, with the emphasis on primary health care - community clinics, immunization programs and the like.
When Ethiopia signed on to the Millennium goals in 2000, the country put hard numbers to its ambition to bring primary health care to all of its citizens.
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The reasons for this are not entirely clear, but the main culprit seems to be a long history of inadequate primary health care in poor communities, especially those in the south.
The new model forms part of wider work being led by NHS Highland and the Scottish government to come up with new ways of delivering primary health care in remote and rural areas.
It also wants measures to reduce the pressure on GPs, such as smaller patient lists and a greater emphasis on delegating clinical and administrative work to other members of the primary health care team.
At the same time, traditional health practices are the primary health care provider for the inhabitants of many countries, and in some of them, or in remote and rural areas, they even represent the sole provider.
While thanking Dangote for the donation, Gough promised that the money will be used to procure 1.7 million doses of measles vaccine and will go a long way in supporting the measles campaign which the Nigerian government is championing through its Ministry of Health and the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA).
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Ethiopia's commitment attracted a surge of donor money toward improving the country's primary health-care services.
Unless these are deceived, Cuba's infant mortality is 7.1 per thousand, its average life-expectancy 75 years: first-world figures which suggest that, under whatever strain, its preventive and primary health-care system is still performing well.
It is our understanding if someone is employed full time by an employer that offers the coverage to their employees, one can't be forced into Medicare for their primary health-care coverage, even though they have reached full retirement age and collect their Social Security benefits.
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The centers will be designed to help provide primary and preventive health care services to people without health insurance.
If you were the primary buyer of health care, insurers, doctors, and hospitals would have to compete to win your business.
The money will be used to focus on access to and use of primary and secondary health care services within those regions.
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In all, around 65m Americans live in federally-designated primary-care health-professional shortage areas (HPSAs), which are regions with 2, 000 or more residents per primary-care doctor.
That consistency in need-based services is the primary reason that health care REIT shares have performed significantly better than their peers during periods of economic weakness.
The Hong Kong government, in its consultation on healthcare reform in 2008, solicited input from the private sector in such areas as enhancing primary care and reform of health-care financing.
But those at the meeting insist that the decision was taken purely on the basis of Uganda's macroeconomic record and its provision of such things as primary education and health care.
Primary and preventative health care alternatives are often inadequate or inaccessible to a population where even an hour of missed income can mean the difference between food on the table or not.
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One of the report's authors, Peter Gill, from the department of primary care health services at the University of Oxford, said these cases should be the "bread and butter" of community care and admissions put pressure on hospital services and carried the risk of hospital-acquired infections.
With the government taking primary responsibility for paying health expenses through its taxpayer financed health programs, the government takes primary responsibility for deciding what health care its citizens are allowed to consume and when.
The bill abolishes Strategic Health Authorities and Primary Care Trusts and gives commissioning powers to consortia of health professionals, overseen by a new Commissioning Board.
The bill would reorganise the NHS in England, abolishing strategic health authorities and primary care trusts and giving commissioning powers to a consortia of health professionals, overseen by a new Commissioning Board.
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