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Development Banks Unite to Increase Primary Health Care Financing – Health Policy Watch

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Development Banks Unite to Increase Primary Health Care Financing - Health Policy Watch

French Health Minister François Braun (left) at an event to present the HIIP. Three Multilateral Development Banks and the World Health Organization (WHO) announced the launch of an investment platform on Thursday aimed at supporting low- and middle-income countries to build up their primary health services (PHC) via grants and soft loans. PHC is widely … Read more

How Investing in Primary Care Can Advance Equity – California Health Care Foundation

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The doctor examines the young patients throat.

Photo: Jessica Brandi Lifland When properly supported and designed, high-quality primary care is a common good that provides better population health and more equitable outcomes, according to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM). But primary care in the United States has been under-resourced for decades, especially in Black, Indigenous and other historically … Read more