Study on defining and conceptualizing of general practice: The accessibility of primary care / 中国卫生政策研究

ABSTRACT

Accessibility is one of the core attributes of primary care, which is closely associated with first-contact, positively interacts with comprehensiveness, and is very influential to continuity and coordination.This paper first reviews the current literature on definition and concept of accessibility and highlights the characteristics and contents of primary care accessibility, then simplifies the overlapping between accessibility and other core attributes of primary care, and finally provides the definition of primary care accessibility and its core elements to lay the foundation for the development of measurement and evaluation tools for the core attributes of general practice.