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Editorial
. 2023 Jul 26;11(15):2128.
doi: 10.3390/healthcare11152128.

Family Medicine and Primary Healthcare: The Past, Present and Future

Antonella Arghittu  1 , Paolo Castiglia  1   2 , Marco Dettori  1   2   3
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Editorial

Family Medicine and Primary Healthcare: The Past, Present and Future

Antonella Arghittu et al. Healthcare (Basel). .

Abstract

As defined by the World Health Organisation in the conference held in Alma Ata, Kazakhstan, in 1978, "Primary health care is essential health care based on practical, scientifically sound, and socially acceptable methods and technology made universally accessible to individuals and families in the community through their full participation and at a cost that the community and country can afford to maintain at every stage of their development in the spirit of self-reliance and self-determination" [...].

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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