ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book explains the agenda for further geographical research on primary health care (PHC) both by health geographers specifically and more broadly by health science, health professional, and social science disciplines interested in geographic phenomena. It identifies access, equity, and community to be PHC themes that resonated most closely with long-standing interests of health geographers and their research regarding health care. Factors posing as constraints on access featured prominently in several chapters, including that: a person's reading of the clinic environment may deter him or her from accessing care from a specific site siting services in areas of deprivation, thereby enhancing geographic accessibility, does not ensure use by those in most need health human resource availability in part determines access to care and people's socio-economic circumstances and decision-making may necessitate having to not seek out care regardless of its accessibility.
