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Primarycare epidemiology can contribute to wider improvements in health and healthcare services, through better understanding of disease aetiology, use of healthcare services and the role of different healthcare interventions.

Typically this provider acts as the first contact and principal point of continuing care for patients within a health care system, and coordinates other specialist care that the patient may need. Patients commonly receive primary care from professionals such as a primary care physician, a nurse practitioner, or a physician assistant. In some localities such a professional may be a registered nurse, a pharmacist, a clinical officer, or a Ayurvedic or other traditional medicine professional.

Related Journals of Primary Care Epidemiology

Primary health care research & development, Primary Care Respiratory Journal, Primary Care Diabetes, Quality in Primary Care, Journal of Primary Health Care

Primary care epidemiology