Our student B. Priya Lakshmi (cohort 2019-20) reflects on how primary care doctors and public health specialists are the gate-keepers preventive healthcare and how these public health roles should be made more attractive to retain specialised staff.
Give 'gate-keepers' their due
MSc IHTM News
9 July 2020
"If a patient ends up in the ward, there have been a failure at many levels of health promotion and health prevention for him to be there. What more if the patient ends up in intensive care." B. Priya Lakshmi (cohort 2019-20)
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