Hülya Çakmur

Kafkas University Turkey

Hülya Çakmur graduated from the medical school at Atatürk University, Turkey. She completed her residency training in family medicine at Trakya University, Turkey. She obtained a PhD in Public Health from Dokuz Eylül University, Turkey. She has 26 years of practice experience as a specialist in family medicine, including 13 years of experience in public health as a PhD prepared professional. She also studied sleep medicine at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, USA, and narrative medicine at St. Thomas University, Canada. She studied voluntarily in geriatrics and published several studies in the field. She is an active member of the Turkish Medical Association and European Academy of Teachers in General Practice/Family Medicine. She has 12 years of experience as a professor at the University of Kafkas, Turkey, where she is the director of the Department of Family Medicine. She has published more than thirty papers in reputed journals.

Hülya Çakmur

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Primary health care is a building block of a community’s public health services. Its main purpose is to prevent health problems in individuals and the public at large. It also plays a key role in environmental health. As such, primary health care is essential for all healthcare systems worldwide. This book provides a comprehensive overview of primary health care.

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