Pioneering family physicians and the mechanisms for strengthening primary health care in India-A qualitative descriptive study

• Main Authors: Archna Gupta (Author), Ramakrishna Prasad (Author), Sunil Abraham (Author), Nisanth Menon Nedungalaparambil (Author), Megan Landes (Author), Carolyn Steele Gray (Author), Sanjeev Sridharan (Author), Onil Bhattacharyya (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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India has one of the most unequal healthcare systems globally, lagging behind its economic development. Improved primary care and primary health care play an integral role in overcoming health disparities. Family medicine is a subset of primary care-delivered by family physicians, characterized by c...