Reporting study results in primary health care: the CRISP guidelines

The World Health Organization (WHO) identifies primary health care (PHC) as the foundation of an effective whole-society healthcare system and declares it must include patient-centred clinical care, community-based healthcare systems, and a purpose-prepared clinician workforce (WHO, 2024). Working under the WHO umbrella, the global health community met at Alma-Ata in 1978, to define PHC (WHO, 1978) and again at Astana in 2018, to renew the commitment to PHC concepts and principles (WHO 2018). The Astana declaration identified PHC as the most ‘inclusive, effective and efficient approach to enhance people’s physical and mental health, as well as social well-being’ (WHO, 2024). It identified three integral components of PHC: (1) primary care (PC) and essential public health functions as the core of integrated health services; (2) multisectoral policy and action; and (3) empowered people and communities (WHO, 2018).