VIDEO: More resources needed to strengthen primary care, improve health equity

In this video, Robert L. Phillips Jr., MD, MSPH, the director of the Center for Professionalism and Value in Health Care at the American Board of Family Medicine, discusses ways to strengthen primary care in the United States.
Phillips references an editorial he wrote in response to three papers published in Annals of Family Medicine that illustrate how “starved” primary care is for resources.
“We spend less than 1% of all federal research dollars in health care on primary care, yet primary care provides more than a third of all health care visits and more than half of all

In this video, Robert L. Phillips Jr., MD, MSPH, the director of the Center for Professionalism and Value in Health Care at the American Board of Family Medicine, discusses ways to strengthen primary care in the United States.
Phillips references an editorial he wrote in response to three papers published in Annals of Family Medicine that illustrate how “starved” primary care is for resources.
“We spend less than 1% of all federal research dollars in health care on primary care, yet primary care provides more than a third of all health care visits and more than half of all