primary health care

1. 1.

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

   Broaderhealth care

Questions about primary health care

What does primary health care mean?

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

Is primary health care a common word?

primary health care is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.