A strong primary health care system is the keystone
of health care and helps patients manage their health
conditions in the community, whilst also providing
disease prevention services. Primary care is a continuously
evolving specialty, with recent exciting innovations,
aiming to improve all aspects of care and to meet people’s
needs and expectations. A search for articles focusing on the specific aspects
of recent advances in primary health care was done
using internet search engines. Articles were selected
from primary and secondary literature sources, which
included original research articles, review articles and
other epidemiological studies. Recent advances in information technology, services
and access, dealing with multimorbidity, academic family
medicine, equity and outcome measures have all made
an impact on the primary health care system and on
meeting the ever-increasing challenges of modern society. Primary health care is of extreme importance in
having an efficient and effective health care system. As
primary health care improves with recent advances, a
positive effect is seen on the population’s health, cost
savings and health care disparities.peer-reviewe
