Summary: The European Association for Palliative Care has established a new task force “palliative care in primary care” to further develop primary care for people facing the en

Background: Longterm medical care for mental disorders needs the participation of primary care physicians. This study investigates how such patients are treated in primary care and what can be improved.

and Weaver is a useful measure for uncertainty in primary care. Primary care clinicians work at the interface between the lifeworld and the health care system. With their unselecte

efficient primary care is of particular importance for any countries’ health care system. Many differences exist on how distinctive countries try to obtain the goal of an efficient, cost-effective primary care

Summary: In 2012, the European Association for Palliative Care established the “Taskforce in Primary Palliative Care“ to further develop primary care for people facing the end of life. In this article, the

and increasing inequalities in the availability of primary care providers among urban and rural areas, it becomes more difficult to ensure primary care provision in Germany. The current needs-

Proposal for a Philosophy of Living as a Foundation for Primary Care Medicine Abstract: Survival of primary care provided by independent family practitioners in Germany appears to be at risk because

Summary: The principles of primary care work by family doctors and the advantages of a primary health care system for patients, society and generalists as well as specialists are shown. Due to the destruction

live in nursing homes. Primary care for people in nursing homes is delivered almost exclusivly by family physicians. In recent years, a discussion on the quality of primary medical care for n

d healthcare (FPCH) is a program to strengthen the role of primary health care in the German healthcare system. Optimized primary health care is expected to improve treatment quality and outcomes in patients