Primary Care Is Usually, but Not Always, the Portal of Entry

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Essay

Primary care is usually, but not always, the portal of entry through which individuals obtain medical services. Discuss some of the individual health care services routinely delivered through primary care.

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Definitions:

Z-score

A statistical measurement of a score's relationship to the mean in a group of scores, often used to calculate probabilities in a normal distribution.

Tchebysheff's Theorem

A theorem that provides a bound on the probability that the value of a random variable lies within a certain number of standard deviations of the mean.

Observations

Data collected or noticed during an experiment or study, typically recorded for further analysis.

Percentile

A value below which a certain percent of observations fall, used as a measure to understand the distribution of data in a dataset.