A scoping literature review of collaboration between primary care and public health

An overarching general barrier to collaboration between For example, in the UK, the reorganization of fiscal PH and PC was the separate entrenched bureaucracies and structural resources to create PCGs facilitated for PH and primary care.136 The power of hospital collaboration50 and the development of unified secondary care over primary health care at a systems budgets enabled services to be commis [...] Other key roles for government were providers who feared loss of autonomy and control.118 endorsing the value of PH and PC collaborations in GPs in the UK were not supportive of clinical the community, emphasizing the potential benefits 20 A Scoping Literature Review of Collaboration between Primary Care and Public Health of collaboration, for example, the potential to attract of PH functions.119. [...] For example, improving Collaboration between PC and PH health is seen as one the quality of PC health services by incorporating a strategy to address the principles of equity and access population health approach was a prevalent type of in health care and to meet the goal of “health for all” collaborative synergy in the UK but much less so in as outlined in the Alma Ata Declaration.7. [...] In the UK, for example, the decision to use 12 Recommendations the expertise of PH to assist PC with implementation of a population approach to health service delivery • Policy discussions should occur with governments was found to have implications for the education of PH to determine implications for building PC and PH personnel and the capacity of the PH workforce to meet collaborations with th [...] We the type of activities revealed in the review appear need to have a better understanding of the risks in to be appropriate and are likely to have a positive a Canadian context and the strategies to ameliorate impact on health care services and health outcomes.