Yet despite these investments, many countries in the region are still a long way from providing every child with a good quality primary education.
Quality primary education is not only a fundamental human right, but also an essential driver of human development, bringing benefits for health and poverty reduction.
Schoolteachers are protesting, too, against a rapid decline in the quality of primary and secondary education.
For more than 40 years, community health centers have delivered comprehensive, high-quality preventive and primary care to patients where they live, and the Affordable Care Act makes a major investment in expanding their ability to serve patients.
Mr Munitz says he wants his campuses to concentrate on what he sees as the vital but much-neglected job of improving the quality of America's primary and secondary schools.
The country then made changes to strengthen the quality and availability of outpatient primary-care services (including payments to encourage physicians to provide e-mail access, off-hours consultation, and nurse managers for complex care).
They are the primary innovators of quality.
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"The primary driver here is quality and protecting customers, not adherence to the monthly schedule, " read the blog.
The investors are likely to pull the raw information about a borrower, roll up their sleeves, and analyze the credit quality themselves, either as a primary decision-making tool, or as a double-check on the rating.
According to Kate Baicker, one of the Dartmouth economists, states with more general practitioners seem to spend less and have better quality care--perhaps because primary care docs help make sure patients have the most basic, effective care.
The primary purpose is to deliver quality health care as inexpensively as possible.
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If primary care practices more aggressively adopt an anesthesia model, we might simultaneously expand access to primary care while improving the quality of the care we provide.
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They may be secondary caregivers, but their emotional, financial and material gifts, not to mention their quality time and positive influence, play a primary role in the vitality of the American Family Village.
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Online technologies have become enormously useful for increasing the speed and efficiency of communication, but they have a long way to go before they become the primary source for creating and maintaining quality human relationships.
Keep in mind, also, that I think primary care is crucial to offering high quality, affordable medical services to people.
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Despite significant progress towards universal primary education and gender parity, the overall quality of education and learning outcomes are weak.
"Whilst funding earmarked for ultra-fast broadband in 10 UK cities is both ambitious and heartening, and will undoubtedly benefit technology companies looking to develop and expand in the UK, the primary concern should be the provision of a quality service to rural areas before pursuing the title of fastest broadband in the world, " said Julia Stent, director of telecoms at price comparison site Uswitch.
But using prestige as the primary (if not sole) signal of educational quality can have a keenly perverse effect on higher education, particularly to the extent that prestige encourages escalating costs.
The reasons, however, are different: while in China my fright stemmed from high speeds and the creative maneuvers many drivers employed to beat traffic, in India the primary reason for my concern was the generally poor quality of the roads.
His primary task is to help farmers improve the productivity and quality of their farms and to reduce environmental harm.
That is one radical implication of an intriguing new report from the folks at Dartmouth Atlas that finds little relationship between the supply of primary care doctors in a region and access to high quality care.
Only limited evidence showed that primary prevention with statins may be cost effective and improve patient quality of life.
This is because OEMs know many consumers may choose their phone based on the quality of the camera, particularly as consumers use their phone as their primary camera.
However, progress has been insufficient to deliver on the international commitment to provide quality basic education for all children, young people and adults: 67 million primary school age children are out of school and 796 million adults are still illiterate.
More than 800 ideas have already been generated in the EFA Crowdsourcing Challenge, which aims to find ways of using mobile communication to help achieve literacy, develop universal primary education, address youth and adult learning needs, enhance the quality of education, and improve gender parity and equality in education.
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Many of the schools under development are making a bigger push to educate future primary care physicians, which will be in greater need to improve the quality of medical care and lower costs by keeping patients out of the more expensive hospital setting.
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His comments follow the publication of an interim report into out-of-hours GP care by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), prompted by Mr Gray's death, which found primary care trusts may be failing to spot patient safety issues because of a lack of scrutiny.
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