PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Etz, Rebecca S.
AU  - Stange, Kurt C.
TI  - Primary Health Care As a Common Good
AID  - 10.3122/jabfm.2023.230430R1
DP  - 2024 Nov 01
TA  - The Journal of the American Board of Family
                Medicine
PG  - S15--S20
VI  - 37
IP  - Supplement1
4099  - http://www.jabfm.org/content/37/Supplement1/S15.short
4100  - http://www.jabfm.org/content/37/Supplement1/S15.full
SO  - J Am Board Fam Med2024 Nov 01; 37
AB  - Growing commodification of health care has resulted in a system that is impersonal, fragmented, and inequitable. A potential antidote to this poisonous situation is to understand and treat primary health care as a common good. Common goods are resources supported as essential to the wellbeing of all. They can be actualized through a Collective Impact approach of a developing a common agenda, shared measurement systems, mutually reinforcing activities, continuous communication, and backbone support organizations. Investing in primary health care as a common good, with investments in primary medical care spending, support, and workforce development, complemented by integrated support of public health and social drivers of health, can launch a transitional period that moves US health care toward greater accessibility, effectiveness, equity, and sustainability.