Improving life expectancy with primary health care

Across the spectrum of primary health: from rainbow health to end-of-life care

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This issue starts with a thoughtful editorial from Emeritus Professor Richard Baker from Leicester, who identifies the role of primary health care in reducing inequalities and the burden of multimorbidity in an aging population. 1 Services which provide comprehensive clinical care, a public health perspective, have equality of access, and a therapeutic relationship lead to increased life expectancy of disadvantaged populations. The role primary health care plays in reducing mortality should not be under-estimated.A viewpoint article by Kathleen Potter explores how both the quality of life and the quality of death in the elderly might be improved by understanding the care trajectories of people experiencing age-related terminal decline.

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