RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Global Health, Equity, and Primary Care
JF The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine
JO J Am Board Fam Med
FD American Board of Family Medicine
SP 511
OP 513
DO 10.3122/jabfm.2007.06.070176
VO 20
IS 6
A1 Barbara Starfield
YR 2007
UL http://www.jabfm.org/content/20/6/511.abstract
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.