Primary healthcare is the first contact a person has with the health system when they have a health problem. Primary healthcare refers to a broad range of health services provided by medical professionals in the community.

Primary health care enables health systems to support a person's health needs – from health promotion to disease prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, palliative care and more. This strategy also ensures that health care is delivered in a way that is centred on people's needs and respects their preferences.

This type of care typically involves routine care, care for urgent but minor or common health problems, mental health care, maternity and child care, psychosocial services, liaison with home care, health promotion and disease prevention, nutrition counselling and end-of-life care.

health care. noun. variants or healthcare. 1. : efforts to maintain, restore, or promote someone's physical, mental, or emotional well-being especially when performed by trained and licensed professionals (as in medicine, dentistry, clinical psychology, and public health)