Overlooking the fundamental importance of Primary Care (PC), some countries are not only keeping the overall cost of healthcare up at the expense of their citizens, but they are also hindering PC professionals in their role as gatekeepers to their own health system. I explain why PC should be the cornerstone of contemporary health care policies.
Anne Moyal
I am a PhD fellow in sociology at Sciences Po Paris, affiliated to the Center for the Sociology of Organizations (CSO) and the Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Evaluation of Public Policies (LIEPP). I currently work under the supervision of Henri Bergeron, CNRS/Sciences Po research fellow and Scientific coordinator of the Sciences Po Chair in Health Studies. Before joining Sciences Po doctorate program, I worked as a healthcare consultant for three years, taking part in different projects aiming to re-organise primary care provision in France. This experience pushed me to ask several theoretical questions which I decided to empirically test with my academic work today. I also took part in a visiting program at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University (New York) in Spring 2019, under the mentorship of professor Lawrence D. Brown.