Primary Health Care in Andalusia
Law 2 / 1998 stipulates that Primary Health Care is the first level of regular access to the population of Andalusia Public Health System and is characterized by providing care for the health. Includes preventive care, curative and rehabilitative and health promotion, health education and surveillance of the environment.
The services of primary health care are organized into districts of Andalusia in primary care who called territorial demarcations basic areas of health. Each area of basic health centers are located in primary care, which provides health care in primary care to the public. In the case of the Health Management Areas of the organization of primary care is defined in the rule establishing the area, without undermining the basic areas of health and primary health care centers are organized according to Decree 197/2007
Districts are the primary organizational structure for operational planning, management and administration in the field of primary care, with responsibility for the organization of the activities of health care, health promotion, disease prevention, care health recovery, management of environmental risks to health and food, as well as teaching and research training.
The basic health zone is the territorial framework for the provision of primary health care, direct access of the population, which provides basic health care and comprehensive. Consist of the municipalities covered by the map of Primary Health Care Andalusia.