Summary
In New Zealand, as in many other countries, the demand for health services is escalating
as chronic disease, population ageing and health disparities increase. It has been
argued that a more comprehensive primary health care approach is needed combining
biomedical approaches with a social determinants and social justice based approach.
The contemporary development of the nurse practitioner (NP) role in New Zealand (NZ)
offers the possibility of taking up a more critical approach to strengthen and extend
primary health care services (PHC). Nurse practitioners could simply be utilised to
shore up the nature and style of existing primary care (PC) service configurations
or, more usefully, they could lead a revolution in traditional approaches towards
genuine primary health care delivery.
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Article info
Publication history
Published online: April 06, 2015
Accepted:
February 19,
2015
Received in revised form:
February 19,
2015
Received:
September 17,
2014
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