TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Primary Care: Physicians, Nurses, and Pharmacists A1 - Burns, Lawton Robert Y1 - 2021 N1 - T2 - The U.S. Healthcare Ecosystem: Payers, Providers, Producers AB - Chapter 3 distinguished primary from secondary and tertiary care. Primary care has been defined as core functions that patients receive from their usual source of care. The World Health Organization (WHO) recognized the important role played by primary care. Similar to the Institute of Medicine’s 6 dimensions of quality (STEEEP, see Chapter 5), the WHO stated that primary care should be comprehensive, integrated, continuous, team-based, patient empowering, health promoting, and bridging of personal and family and community health.1 SN - PB - McGraw-Hill CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/04/23 UR - accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1180253037 ER -