GC: n
S: NCBI – https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK232631/ (last access: 2 July 2024); NHS – https://www.england.nhs.uk/get-involved/get-involved/how/primarycare/ (last access: 2 July 2024).
N: 1. – primary (adj): early 15c., primarie, “earliest, most basic, first in time or sequence;” 1560s, “first or highest in rank or importance,” from Latin primarius “of the first rank, chief, principal, excellent,” from primus “first” (see prime (adj.)).
– care (n): Old English caru, cearu “sorrow, anxiety, grief,” also “burdens of mind; serious mental attention,” in late Old English also “concern, anxiety caused by apprehension of evil or the weight of many burdens,” from Proto-Germanic *karō “lament; grief, care” (source also of Old Saxon kara “sorrow;” Old High German chara “wail, lament;” Gothic kara “sorrow, trouble, care;” German Karfreitag “Good Friday;” see care (v.)).
The meaning “charge, oversight, attention or heed with a view to safety or protection” is attested from c. 1400; this is the sense in care of in addressing (1840). The meaning “object or matter of concern” is from 1580s. To take care of “take in hand, do” is from 1580s; take care “be careful” also is from 1580s.
2. Medical and Hospital Organization: [The] basic health services for day-to-day care of the patient provided by physicians and other providers and requiring the lowest level of technology and special expertise by comparison with secondary and tertiary care.
3. The first level represents primary health care, or first contact care, at which patients have their initial contact with the health-care system.
S: 1. Etymonline – https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=primary+care (last access: 2 July 2024). 2. TERMIUM PLUS – https://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/tpv2alpha/alpha-eng.html?lang=eng&i=1&srchtxt=PRIMARY+CARE&index=alt&codom2nd_wet=1#resultrecs (last access: 2 July 2024). 3. EncBrit – https://www.britannica.com/topic/primary-health-care (last access: 2 July 2024).
SYN: 1. front-line care, frontline care. 2. primary health care.
S: 1. TERMIUM PLUS – https://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/tpv2alpha/alpha-eng.html?lang=eng&i=1&srchtxt=PRIMARY+CARE&index=alt&codom2nd_wet=1#resultrecs (last access: 2 July 2024). 2. GDT – https://vitrinelinguistique.oqlf.gouv.qc.ca/fiche-gdt/fiche/1299123/soins-de-sante-primaires (last access: 2 July 2024).
CR: health, health care, palliative care.
