Ontario Primary Care

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Introduction: If Ontario’s health care system aspires to construct a secure and a better quality health care system for patient, and improve integration for Ontario health care systems. Ontario should emphasis on achieving and structuring a patient centred primary care system that permits integration in the Ontario’s health care system (OMA, 2013). However, in order to achieve primary care one must understand what primary care is, and why it is important for health care systems. Thus, this paper will look into defining and explaining what primary care is, comparing primary care to primary medicare, going through some roadblocks on primary care, and lastly how primary care will be a major component to improving integration in Ontario’s Health …show more content…

Primary health care focus on disease preventions, health promoters, community development, and population health (Alma-Ata, 1978). Primary medical care also emphasizes a greater extent, on providing treatments for afflictions, such as HIV, diabetes, and hepatitis B and C. Overall, primary curative care “supports individuals and families to make the best decisions for their health. It includes advice on health promotion and disease prevention, health assessments, diagnosis and treatments.” (Hog, …show more content…

One can see that primary medical care focus on individuals health, and communities, primary medical care is equally concerned about health, and targeting the social determinate of health (Stewart, 2004) However, primary care and primary medical care are not totally different from each other, they both share similar concepts. Primary care is considered to be an element within primary medical care which focuses on health care services, such as illness, treatment, and health promotion. Primary care also demonstrated similar services as primary Medicare, because primary medical care also uses family physicians and general medical practitioners that focus on diagnosis and treatment for illness (Hogg, 2003). It is clear that primary care, and primary medical are two different concepts, where primary care focuses on a more direct contact with patients and physicians, while primary medical considers everyday needs for patients. Although, primary medical care has no proof of improving integration, it plays a tremendous role on just trying to cure the health of

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