A better future: Primary Health Care
Primary health care is a term used to describe a system where a patient’s health care needs are attended to by the most appropriately trained individual. This method of health care delivery has been called a “team based approach” (Health Canada, 2006). Instead of seeing the doctor for every health concern, other health professionals such as nurse practitioners, pharmacists, dieticians or physiotherapists may be called upon to take care of your concerns. In this paper I will discuss the issues in primary health care from the literature review/article Primary health care and the social determinants of health: essential and complementary approaches for reducing inequities in health (2010). I will once again provide a summary of Romanow’s (2002) arguments and recommendations concerning primary health care, and do the same with the Accord on Health Care Renewal (2003) and the First Ministers’ Meeting on the Future of Health in Canada (2004) accord’s. As the paper progresses I will then analyze and evaluate how the Accord on Health Care Renewal (2003) and the First Ministers’ Meeting on the Future of Health in Canada (2004) accord’s ignored or exceeded Romanow’s (2002) recommendations concerning primary health care. Toward the paper’s end, I will explain what has happened in Ontario in regard to primary care since the Agreements and the Romanow Commission report (2002) release. Lastly to conclude the paper I will try to go in depth and explain if Romanow’s (2002) recommendations about primary health care have been implemented by Ontario, and if his recommendation has helped improve the situation of primary health care. Through my research I found the piece of literature, Primary health care and the social determinants of health: essential and complementary approaches for reducing inequities in health (2010) extremely interesting and