Primary health care workers provide immunization services at primary health care centres, which include large polyclinics and smaller ambulatory clinics.
Patients who are accustomed to easy access to specialist treatment in large polyclinics, especially in cities, may find it difficult to accept a new PHC system in which the family physician is the main, and often only, caregiver.
To research this, a study was carried out in three waiting halls of a large polyclinic building: a clinic waiting hall, a pharmacy waiting hall, and an X-ray waiting hall, spatially designed different from each other.
Consequently, the aim of this study was to evaluate the knowledge of dentists working in private and governmental hospitals, clinics, polyclinics (large dental health care facilities that provide a wider range of service than a standard general dental practitioner's office) and dental schools in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, concerning permanent tooth avulsion and its management.
Large cities commonly have separate polyclinics for children and adults, as well as clinics with specializations such as women's health care, mental illnesses, and sexually transmitted diseases.
This is the most peripheral level of the Armenian health system, and serves as a referral point to both ambulatories (clinics staffed by doctors in population centres of over 2000) and polyclinics (clinics in large towns with diagnostic and specialist services).
At the larger industrial establishments in the Soviet Union, polyclinics were created to provide both occupational and general care for workers and their families.
The ICCs for triceps skinfold thickness and verbal IQ were both high, reflecting the large differences in means among the 31 polyclinics, although the ICC for triceps skinfold was lower than for verbal IQ because of higher variation within polyclinics; the SD was about 40% of the mean for the triceps skinfold compared with 15% of the mean for verbal IQ.
In East Germany, a large part of healthcare was provided by polikliniken (polyclinics): state-funded outpatients centres in which GPs shared a roof with specialists.
The facilities served large populations with substantial inpatient (bed) capacity and had long operating hours, such as polyclinics that were open an average of 58.7 and 72.7 hours a week for emergency care.
Each facility was staffed by a large number of providers (averaging 180, 78 and 43 doctors at oblast hospitals, rayon hospitals and polyclinics, respectively) seeing many outpatients a month.
