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Primary Care Action

First Things First for Our Healthy Future

Purpose

Primary Care Action is a national effort advancing the health of individuals, families and communities in the United States. It assumes that the health of the American people is enhanced by adequate access to appropriate primary health care. Because health is the goal of this undertaking, Primary Care Action focuses on the development and provision of multidisciplinary primary care resources that can provide needed disease prevention, health promotion, and health services to our increasingly aging and diverse population. Primary Care Action values:

• universal access to health care,
• creative redeployment of health care resources to achieve new efficiencies,
• effective management of health care to produce the highest levels of quality, and
• creation of a "health commons" to bring together all stakeholders in the community to promote the public's health.

Program

Primary Care Action has created an inclusive and strategic agenda that helps reshape and integrate primary care resources. In addition to primary care stakeholders, partners in public health, systems of care, and the public have helped develop that agenda.

Primary Care Action promotes, facilitates and supports collaboration among primary care constituents, national foundation initiatives, and individual and corporate consumers of primary care services. The first phase of Primary Care Action builds the capacity to support such a comprehensive initiative while activating each of the components of the undertaking - research, policy, practice, education, leadership and communication. The second stage of activity will implement in-depth programs, including:

• Research aimed at understanding and advancing new models of primary care delivery.
• National meetings to promote networking and to develop policies to advance primary care effectiveness.
• Development and dissemination of innovative primary care practice and education models.
• Networks of primary care leaders and constituents.
• Innovative and dynamic communications program to link key constituents and advance the image of primary care.

People

Primary Care Action's network includes individuals, associations, public agencies, educational and care delivery organizations, and consumer groups. The primary convening organizations are the National Fund for Medical Education, the Primary Care Fellowship Society, and the UCSF Center for the Health Professions. Other collaborators include the Health of the Public Network, Generalist Physician Initiative, Community Campus Partnerships for Health and the Pew Health Professions Commission. To join Primary Care Action's network of participant, please complete this form.

Primary Care Action Advisory Committee

Ann Cary, PhD, RN (chair), Geraldine Bednash, PhD, RN, Colleen Conway-Welch, PhD, CNM, Ann Davis, PA-C, Edgar Davis, Kristine Gebbie, RN, DrPH, Sam Ho, MD, Jean Johnson, PhD, CNP, Arthur Kaufman, MD, Fitzhugh Mullan, MD, James Mulvihill, DMD, Mark Novitch, MD, Edward O'Neil, PhD, Eugene Rich, MD, Barbara Ross-Lee, DO, William Tyler, Esq. and Terri Kluzik, MSW (staff).

Click here for more information or to join the PCA network of participants.

Additionally, e-mail Terri Kluzik your name, title, orgainzation, address, phone, fax and email address, OR call 415-476-8181.