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Table 3 Core features of the PRIMASYS approach

From: PRIMASYS: a health policy and systems research approach for the assessment of country primary health care systems

Context sensitivity: provides guidance for context-sensitive and context-specific enquiry through flexible elements of enquiry, and engagement of country-level key informants

Flexibility: allows for the deeper description of context-specific pathways of reform and explanations of failures, through micro-case studies utilizing qualitative methods

Systems thinking: promoting the conception of PHC systems as a composite of variably interlinked elements, including structural elements (governance, financing, service organization)

Learning emphasis: integrates different forms of learning for policy

Complementarity: builds on current advances and efforts