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May 2005, Vol 95, No. 5 | American Journal of Public Health 757
© 2005 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2004.060822

LETTER

COMMUNITY-ORIENTED PRIMARY CARE AND PRIMARY HEALTH CARE

Jaime Gofin, MD, MPH and Rosa Gofin, MD, MPH

The authors are with Hebrew University—Hadassah School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Jerusalem, Israel.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Jaime Gofin, MD, MPH, Hadassah School of Public Health, PO Box 12272, Jerusalem 91120, Israel (e-mail: jaime@md.huji.ac.il).

Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

Nowadays there is a renewed interest in the role of primary care as an essential component of the delivery of health care. Cueto’s article on the role of the World Health Organization (WHO) in the emergence of primary health care1 is timely indeed and stimulates discussion about this dimension of health care.

We wish to direct attention to an approach not mentioned in Cueto’s article that is taught, practiced, and written about extensively—the community-oriented primary care (COPC) model. The recent application and evaluation of COPC in various countries was reported in several articles published in the November 2002 issue of . . . [Full Text]




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