关键词: 新型冠状病毒肺炎, 冠状病毒感染, 疫情, 初级卫生保健, 基层医疗卫生机构, 发展策略

Abstract: Primary healthcare settings are the control and prevention network basis of COVID-19 epidemic.So improving COVID-19 control and prevention，service delivery and response levels of these institutions is crucial to the national epidemic control and prevention.Based on the analysis of related field survey results as well as information from national and local official websites，we summed up the important role of primary healthcare in dealing with the epidemic.Moreover，we proposed the following priorities for primary healthcare settings in combating the complex epidemic and delivering daily healthcare services：strengthening community-based control and prevention of COVID-19，providing assistance for other institutions in combating COVID-19，implementing daily healthcare and essential public health services，ensuring medical safety and strengthening the control and prevention of nosocomial infections，and adequately playing the role in county-based healthcare network.Furthermore，developing strategies targeting the weaknesses in combating the epidemic and inadequacies in delivering daily healthcare services of primary healthcare were also put forward：strengthening the development of general practitioner system and hierarchical medical system；improving early warning sensitivity，awareness of timely report of major epidemic，and emergency response level in primary healthcare workers；enhancing the informatization construction and application in primary care using artificial intelligence and cutting-edge technologies；promoting the development of regional medical consortiums and local healthcare networks，and exploring patterns for efficiently integrating medical and prevention services；vigorously carrying out patriotic public health campaigns，strengthening the mechanism of group-based control and prevention of communicable diseases，and facilitating the construction of healthy communities and villages.

Key words: COVID-19, Coronavirus infections, Epidemic, Primary health care, Primary-level medical and health care institutions, Development strategy