Primary Health Care Innovations

This track highlights emerging models, technologies, and strategies transforming primary health care delivery. It focuses on innovative approaches to community-based care, preventive health services, integrated care systems, and patient-centered practices. Sessions will explore digital health solutions, telemedicine, task shifting, and scalable interventions that improve access, efficiency, and health outcomes—especially in underserved and resource-limited settings. The track emphasizes practical innovations that strengthen health systems and support universal health coverage.

Mental Health in Primary Care

This track highlights the vital role of primary health care in the early identification, prevention, and management of mental health conditions. It focuses on integrating mental health services into routine primary care to improve access, reduce stigma, and ensure holistic patient-centered care. Topics include screening and early intervention, management of common mental disorders such as depression and anxiety, community-based mental health programs, and the role of nurses and primary care providers in psychosocial support. The track also addresses mental health promotion, crisis intervention, digital mental health tools, and collaborative care models for sustainable mental health outcomes.

Community-Centered Nursing Care

This track focuses on nursing approaches that place individuals, families, and communities at the core of primary health care delivery. It highlights community engagement, culturally sensitive care, health education, disease prevention, and participatory models that empower communities to take an active role in improving health outcomes. Emphasis is placed on addressing social determinants of health, reducing health disparities, and strengthening partnerships between nurses, community organizations, and public health systems to promote sustainable and equitable care.

Global & Rural Health

This track focuses on strengthening primary health care delivery in global and rural settings, addressing health disparities, limited resources, and access challenges. It highlights community-based interventions, rural health systems, indigenous and underserved population care, infectious and non-communicable disease management, and the role of nurses in global health initiatives. Emphasis is placed on sustainable models, policy frameworks, and innovative strategies to improve health outcomes in low-resource and remote communities.

Clinical Cardiovascular Nursing

This track highlights the critical role of nurses in the prevention, assessment, and management of cardiovascular diseases across primary and clinical care settings. It focuses on evidence-based nursing interventions, cardiac risk assessment, patient monitoring, rehabilitation, and long-term care for conditions such as hypertension, coronary artery disease, and heart failure. Emphasis is placed on improving patient outcomes through coordinated care, lifestyle counseling, and advanced clinical nursing practices.

Aging & Palliative Care Nursing

This track focuses on comprehensive nursing care for the aging population and patients with life-limiting illnesses. It highlights strategies for managing chronic conditions, frailty, dementia, and multiple comorbidities, while promoting healthy aging and functional independence. The track also emphasizes palliative and end-of-life care, including pain and symptom management, psychosocial support, ethical decision-making, family-centered care, and improving quality of life across care settings such as homes, long-term care facilities, and primary health centers.

Primary Care Research Methods

This track focuses on research approaches tailored to real-world primary health care settings. It highlights quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods designs, community-based participatory research, implementation science, and health services research. Sessions emphasize data collection in primary care, outcomes measurement, evidence synthesis, and translating research findings into clinical and community practice to strengthen patient-centered and population health outcomes.

Research-Driven Nursing

This track highlights the role of nursing research in improving patient outcomes, clinical decision-making, and healthcare quality. It focuses on translating research findings into practice, developing evidence-based interventions, and strengthening nursing contributions to policy and care standards. Sessions will explore clinical research, outcome measurement, innovation in nursing practice, and strategies to bridge the gap between research, education, and real-world healthcare delivery.

Community & Preventive Health

This track focuses on promoting health and preventing disease through community-based nursing and primary care initiatives. It highlights preventive strategies such as health education, vaccination programs, lifestyle modification, early screening, and risk reduction across populations. Emphasis is placed on community engagement, public awareness, social determinants of health, and sustainable interventions that improve population health outcomes and reduce healthcare burdens.

Integrated PHC Systems

This track focuses on building coordinated, patient-centered primary health care systems that seamlessly integrate prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up services. It highlights multidisciplinary collaboration, referral networks, continuity of care, and the use of digital health tools to improve efficiency and outcomes. Discussions will emphasize system-level innovations, care integration across settings, and strategies to strengthen accessibility, quality, and sustainability of primary health care delivery.

Tele-Nursing in Primary Health Care

This track focuses on the growing role of tele-nursing in enhancing access, continuity, and quality of primary health care services. It highlights the use of digital technologies for remote patient monitoring, virtual consultations, chronic disease management, follow-up care, and health education. Discussions will explore tele-nursing models, digital competencies for nurses, patient engagement, data privacy, and the impact of telehealth on improving care delivery in rural, remote, and underserved populations.

Primary Care Quality & Safety

This track focuses on improving patient safety and care quality in primary health care settings through evidence-based practices, clinical governance, and risk management strategies. It highlights quality improvement initiatives, patient-centered care models, safety culture development, and the use of performance indicators to reduce medical errors and enhance health outcomes at the primary care level.

Health Promotion & Prevention

This track highlights strategies to improve population health by preventing disease and promoting healthy lifestyles at the primary care level. It focuses on community-based health education, behavioral change interventions, early screening programs, vaccination initiatives, and risk factor reduction for non-communicable and infectious diseases. The track emphasizes the vital role of nurses and primary care professionals in empowering individuals and communities to achieve long-term health and well-being.

AI & Digital Primary Care

This track explores the integration of artificial intelligence and digital technologies in primary health care to enhance clinical decision-making, patient monitoring, and service delivery. It covers AI-assisted diagnostics, electronic health records, teleconsultations, mobile health applications, and data-driven care models that improve access, efficiency, and patient outcomes in primary care settings.

Pediatric & Adolescent Nursing

This track focuses on comprehensive nursing care for infants, children, and adolescents within primary health care settings, emphasizing growth and development, preventive care, early disease detection, immunization, nutrition, and adolescent mental and reproductive health. It highlights family-centered care, health education, and evidence-based interventions to promote lifelong health and well-being.

Rural Health Equity

This track focuses on addressing health disparities and improving access to quality primary health care for rural and underserved populations. It highlights community-based interventions, culturally competent nursing care, mobile and outreach health services, workforce challenges, and policy strategies aimed at strengthening rural health systems and achieving equitable health outcomes.

Maternal & Newborn Care

This track focuses on improving health outcomes for mothers and newborns through quality antenatal, intrapartum, and postnatal care. It highlights evidence-based nursing practices, safe childbirth, early newborn care, maternal nutrition, and community-based interventions to reduce maternal and infant morbidity and mortality.

Surgical Care Nursing

This track focuses on nursing roles in preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative care, emphasizing patient safety, infection control, pain management, and recovery optimization. It highlights evidence-based surgical nursing practices, perioperative coordination, and quality outcomes in both hospital and primary care-linked surgical settings.