TY - JOUR T1 - Global Health, Equity, and Primary Care JF - The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine JO - J Am Board Fam Med SP - 511 LP - 513 DO - 10.3122/jabfm.2007.06.070176 VL - 20 IS - 6 AU - Barbara Starfield Y1 - 2007/11/01 UR - http://www.jabfm.org/content/20/6/511.abstract N2 - 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. ER -