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The Role of Primary Care in Improving Population Health

Authors:	KURT C. STANGE WILLIAM L. MILLER REBECCA S. ETZ

Affiliation:	1. Center for Community Health Integration, Case Western Reserve University;2. Lehigh Valley Health System and University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine;3. Virginia Commonwealth University

Abstract:	Policy Points Systems based on primary care have better population health, health equity, and health care quality, and lower health care expenditure. Primary care can be a boundary-spanning force to integrate and personalize the many factors from which population health emerges. Equitably advancing population health requires understanding and supporting the complexly interacting mechanisms by which primary care influences health, equity, and health costs.

Keywords:	population health primary health care generalism general practice health equity health expenditures physician–patient relationship care integration