title: Public health readiness and role in transformation to a community-based primary healthcare system.
abstract: Millar et al. provide a high-level vision for transforming primary care into a community-based primary healthcare system, arguing that public health involvement is critical to the success of this transformation. The authors discuss a number of approaches to mitigate challenges to public health's readiness to participate. In this commentary, the author addresses selected points encouraging the avoidance of high-level conceptual language, a focus on specific value-added linkages and addressing the complex range of critical success factors needed to effect this transformation.
authors: Adjunct Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto.
authors: Brent W
authors: BW
authors: Moloughney
mesh_terms: D003153:Community Health Services / Q000191:economics*; D018166:Health Care Reform / Q000191:economics*; D006801:Humans; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000191:economics*; D011635:Public Health Administration / Q000191:economics*; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000191:economics*