PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Starfield, Barbara
TI  - Global Health, Equity, and Primary Care
AID  - 10.3122/jabfm.2007.06.070176
DP  - 2007 Nov 01
TA  - The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine
PG  - 511--513
VI  - 20
IP  - 6
4099  - http://www.jabfm.org/content/20/6/511.short
4100  - http://www.jabfm.org/content/20/6/511.full
SO  - J Am Board Fam Med2007 Nov 01; 20
AB  - Global health provides a special challenge for primary care and general practice, which will become increasingly important in the future as the prevalence of multimorbidity increases with increasing likelihood of survival from acute manifestations of illness, as populations age, and as costs of care increase with increasing availability of technologic interventions. World organizations of primary care physicians need to take up the challenge before it becomes a crisis.