PRIMARY HEALTH CARE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does primary health care mean? 

• PRIMARY HEALTH CARE (noun)
  The noun PRIMARY HEALTH CARE has 1 sense:

1. health care that is provided by a health care professional in the first contact of a patient with the health care system

  Familiarity information: PRIMARY HEALTH CARE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRIMARY HEALTH CARE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Health care that is provided by a health care professional in the first contact of a patient with the health care system

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("primary health care" is a kind of...):

health care (social insurance for the ill and injured)

 Context examples 

He will generally not render primary health care, except for specific disease entities such as selected communicable diseases.

(Community Physician, NCI Thesaurus)

CNMs provide primary health care to women of childbearing age including: prenatal care, labor and delivery care, care after birth, gynecological exams, newborn care, assistance with family planning decisions, preconception care, menopausal management and counseling in health maintenance and disease prevention.

(Certified Nurse Midwife, NCI Thesaurus)