Interprofessional collaboration in primary care: a call for equity within multidisciplinary teams

Increasing demands due to ageing populations, rising health-care costs, and decreasing numbers of primary care doctors and nurses challenge access to affordable care, especially for people with multiple physical and psychosocial needs. According to policy makers from WHO, “Integrated multidisciplinary primary health care teams are better positioned to provide holistic solutions to the health and wellbeing challenges of the 21st century”.1 Additionally, the American National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine concluded that “Care provided by teams of clinicians and other professionals fit to the needs of communities, working to the top of their skills, and in coordination leads to better health”.