Primary Health Care
Last updated ISSN 0264-5033
Primary Health Care is published by Royal College of Nursing in health professions. It is a subscription journal. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Primary Health Care concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Primary Care and Health Outcomes
- Nursing Roles and Practices
- Healthcare Systems and Challenges
- Child and Adolescent Health
- Health Services Management and Policy
- Science, Research, and Medicine
- Global Health Workforce Issues
- Nursing Education, Practice, and Leadership
- Interprofessional Education and Collaboration
- School Health and Nursing Education
Key facts
| Publisher | Royal College of Nursing |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0264-5033, 2047-900X |
| Subject area | Health Professions |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Scopus |
| Articles published | 7,515 |
| Publishing since | 1983 |
| Journal website | journals.rcni.com/journal/phc |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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