title: [Primary health care: challenges for implementation in Latin America].
abstract: A development process, marked by the re-appearance of the primary health care as the core of health systems, has emerged in Latin America. Governments have made a commitment to renew this strategy as the basis of their health systems. However, these health systems are mainly faced with re-introducing equity values, and there are common challenges such as providing the health systems with trained human resources in sufficient numbers, overcoming the fragmentation/segmentation of the systems, ensuring financial sustainability, improving governance, quality of care and information systems, expanding coverage, preparing to face the consequences of an aging population, the changing epidemiological profile, and increase in the response capacity of the public health system. This article is intended to provide a comprehensive view of the progress and challenges of the inclusion of primary care health systems in Latin American countries.
authors.affiliation: Grupo de Investigación Promoción de la Salud y Prevención de la Enfermedad, Universidad de Caldas, Programa de Jóvenes Investigadores e Innovadores, Colciencias, Manizales, Colombia.
authors.forename: Alexandra
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Giraldo Osorio
authors.forename: Consuelo
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Vélez Álvarez
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007843:Latin America; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*
keywords: América Latina; Atención primaria de salud; Health policy; Healthcare systems; Heath care reform; Latin America; Política de salud; Primary health care; Reforma de la atención de salud; Sistemas de salud