When Canadians need health care, they generally contact a primary health care professional, who could be a family doctor, nurse, nurse practitioner, physiotherapist, pharmacist, etc., often working in a team of health care professionals. Services provide at the first point of contact with the health care system are known for primary health care services and they form. the foundation of the health care system.
In generally, primary health care serves a dual function. First, it provides direct provision of first-contact health care services. Second, it coordinates patient's health care services to assure continuity of care and ease of movement across the health care system when more specialized services needed.
Primary health care services often including prevention and treatment of common diseases and injuries; basic emergency services; primary mental health care; a health promotion; healthy child development; primary maternity care; and rehabilitation services.
Doctors in private practice are generally paid through fee-for-service schedules negotiated between each provincial and territorial government and the medical associations in their respective jurisdictions (权限). These in other practice settings, such as clinics, community health centers and group practices, are less likely to be paid through an alternative payment scheme, such as salaries or a blended payment.
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