Continuity in primary care: a critical but neglected component for achieving high-quality universal health coverage

Dan Schwarz; Lisa R Hirschhorn; June-Ho Kim; Hannah L Ratcliffe; Asaf Bitton

doi:10.1136/bmjgh-2019-001435

Continuity in primary care: a critical but neglected component for achieving high-quality universal health coverage

BMJ Glob Health. 2019 May 23;4(3):e001435. doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2019-001435. eCollection 2019.

Authors

Dan Schwarz^{1

2}, Lisa R Hirschhorn^{1

3}, June-Ho Kim^{1

4}, Hannah L Ratcliffe¹, Asaf Bitton^{1

4}

Affiliations

¹ Primary Health Care, Ariadne Labs, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
² Division of Global Health Equity, Brigham and Women's Hospital Department of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
³ Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
⁴ Division of General Internal Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital Department of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

No abstract available

Keywords: continuity; equity; health systems; low- and middle-income countries; primary care; primary health care; quality; universal health coverage.