Health.Zone Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the Health.Zone Content Network
  2. Primary health care - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_health_care

    Primary health care enables health systems to support a person’s health needs – from health promotion to disease prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, palliative care and more. It is essential health care that is based on scientifically sound and socially acceptable methods and technology. This makes universal health care accessible to all ...

  3. What Is Primary Care? Healthcare Services, Procedures, Doctors

    www.healthline.com/find-care/articles/primary...

    Primary care is your healthcare home. Primary care providers are trained to prevent, diagnose, and treat conditions you may have across your whole life span. Primary care includes preventive ...

  4. Primary care - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_care

    Primary care may be provided in community health centres. Primary care is a model of health care that supports first-contact, accessible, continuous, comprehensive and coordinated person-focused care. It aims to optimise population health and reduce disparities across the population by ensuring that subgroups have equal access to services.

  5. What Is a Primary Care Physician? - WebMD

    www.webmd.com/.../what-is-a-primary-care-physician

    A primary care physician is a health manager. They are in clinics, long-term care facilities, private practices, outpatient hospital settings, inpatient hospital settings, and group practices.

  6. What's a Primary Care Physician (PCP)? - Healthline

    www.healthline.com/find-care/articles/primary...

    A primary care physician (PCP) is a medical doctor trained to prevent, diagnose, and treat a wide range of illnesses and injuries in the general population. They may refer you to specialists for ...

  7. What Is a Nurse Practitioner? - WebMD

    www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/what-is-a-nurse...

    A nurse practitioner (NP) is a health care professional who offers a wide range of acute, primary, and specialty care services, either alone or alongside a doctor.

  8. What a General Practitioner Is and When to See One - WebMD

    www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/what-is-a-general...

    The definition of a primary practice is one that provides first and continuing contact with patients. If your doctor works in a primary care practice, they will refer you to a specialist if you ...

  9. Primary care physician - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_care_physician

    Primary care physician. A primary care physician (PCP) is a physician who provides both the first contact for a person with an undiagnosed health concern as well as continuing care of varied medical conditions, not limited by cause, organ system, or diagnosis. The term is primarily used in the United States.