Special issue: COVID-19 and Primary Care
This special issue of BJGP Open documents how the COVID-19 pandemic is influencing the ability of international health systems to deliver high quality primary care. We welcomed primary research and comparative analyses that elucidated differences in international responses linked to primary data on how access, continuity, comprehensiveness, coordination, and person-focused care are changing, and the subsequent impact on health and social outcomes. Documenting the outcomes of the myriad natural experiments playing out around the globe generated important new evidence on the contribution of different primary care functions to the health of societies.
IN THIS ISSUE
COVID-19 and international primary care systems: Rebuilding a stronger primary care
Allen and Dambha-Miller
COVID-19 and primary care in six countries
Huston et al
Primary health care beyond COVID-19: dealing with the pandemic in Cameroon
Ngo Bibaa
Goodyear-Smith et al
ABOUT OUR GUEST EDITOR
Dr Luke Allen trained in medicine and international health at Bristol. He completed his MPH in global health at Harvard and is now an academic GP at the University of Oxford. He worked on the vision and background documents for the Astana Declaration on Primary Health Care and has extensive experience at the World Health Organization. He has published widely in the field of global health and worked closely with senior health system leaders across low-, middle-, and high-income countries. Prior to this, he worked as the research and innovation lead at the WHO Global Coordination Mechanism on Noncommunicable Diseases.
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