Successes, weaknesses, and recommendations to strengthen primary health care: a scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Primary health care (PHC) is a roadmap for achieving universal health coverage (UHC). There were several fragmented and inconclusive pieces of evidence needed to be synthesized. Hence, we synthesized evidence to fully understand the successes, weaknesses, effective strategies, and barriers of PHC.

Methods

We followed the PRISMA extension for scoping reviews checklist. Qualitative, quantitative, or mixed-approach studies were included. The result synthesis is in a realistic approach with identifying which strategies and challenges existed at which country, in what context and why it happens.

Results

A total of 10,556 articles were found. Of these, 134 articles were included for the final synthesis. Most studies (86 articles) were quantitative followed by qua

SUBMITTER: Endalamaw A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10236853 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature