Lessons on chronic care organisation during the COVID-19 pandemic in Cambodia, Slovenia, and Belgium. COVID as a magnifying glass on primary health care.

Introduction: Primary health care (PHC) systems worldwide have been challenged by the COVID-19 pandemic. Some patients couldn’t access care or services were not available. Background: Fuelled by different health systems, the impact on NCD care has been different in the three countries under research: Cambodia (a developing health system in a middle-income country), Slovenia (a centrally-steered health system in a high-income country), and Belgium (a publicly-funded privatised health system in a high-income country). As crises can uncover both the strengths and weaknesses of a PHC system, we ca... Mehr ...