Comprehensive Primary Health Care in Australia: findings from a narrative review of the literature

Objectives : To identify the extent to which the Alma Ata defined Comprehensive Primary Health Care (CPHC) approach is practised and evaluated in Australia and to describe the role that GPs and other medical practitioners play in it along with implications of this for future policy in light of the Health and Hospital Reform Commission (HHRC) and Primary Health Care taskforce reports, 2009 recommendations. Methods : We conducted a narrative review of the literature (published and grey) from 1987 to mid 2007 as part of a global review carried out by teams of researchers in six regions in