Delimitación conceptual de la atención primaria de salud
; Moscoso, Nebel Silvana
; Lago, Fernando Pablo 
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07/2017
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Sociedad Cubana de Administración de Salud
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Revista Cubana de Salud Pública
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0864-3466
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1561-3127
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La relevancia de los bienes y servicios provistos en el marco de la estrategia de atención primaria de salud se sustenta en la evidencia teórica y empírica recopilada en las últimas décadas. Sin embargo, aún persisten ciertas imprecisiones en torno al concepto que dificultan su estudio.
Objetivo: Delimitar el concepto y diferenciarlo de algunos términos relacionados:
atención primaria y primer nivel de atención.
Fuente de datos: Se realizó una revisión temática de investigaciones teórico-conceptuales y empíricas correspondientes al período 1970- 2015. Se consultaron
los estudios originales y de revisión publicados en español, inglés y portugués en
las bases Medline, EconLit y en buscadores genéricos de internet (Google Scholar).
Al mismo tiempo, y para evitar el sesgo de publicación, se revisaron las referencias
bibliográficas de las investigaciones encontradas en la primera etapa de búsqueda.
Los descriptores empleados fueron: primary health care, primary care, atención
primaria y atención primaria de salud.
Síntesis de los datos: Existen variaciones conceptuales del término atención
primaria de salud que pueden responder a características propias de los sistemas de salud donde fueron formulados. Diversos autores han intentado establecer las
diferencias entre los mismos.
The relevance of the goods and services provided as part of the strategy of Primary Health Care (PHC) is based on the theoretical and empirical evidence found in the last decades. However, there are certain inaccuracies around this concept that hinder its study. Objective.We try to define the concept of primary health care and differentiate it from some related terms: primary care (PC) and first level care (FLC). Methods: we perform a thematic review of the literature related to the concepts under study. Results. The literature review reveals that there are variations of the term PHC that may depend on the specific characteristics of the health systems where they were formulated. Several authors have attempted to establish the differences between them. Conclusions. Although the concepts of PHC, PC and FLC are frequently confused and used as synonyms, the first concept refers to a health policy while the second must be associated with a model of care; finally, the last term corresponds to a level of care in the health system.
The relevance of the goods and services provided as part of the strategy of Primary Health Care (PHC) is based on the theoretical and empirical evidence found in the last decades. However, there are certain inaccuracies around this concept that hinder its study. Objective.We try to define the concept of primary health care and differentiate it from some related terms: primary care (PC) and first level care (FLC). Methods: we perform a thematic review of the literature related to the concepts under study. Results. The literature review reveals that there are variations of the term PHC that may depend on the specific characteristics of the health systems where they were formulated. Several authors have attempted to establish the differences between them. Conclusions. Although the concepts of PHC, PC and FLC are frequently confused and used as synonyms, the first concept refers to a health policy while the second must be associated with a model of care; finally, the last term corresponds to a level of care in the health system.
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