Framework for Community Health in the Aragón Health System: Primary Care (EACA)

The Aragon Community Care framework (EACA) is a Department of Health initiative aimed at promoting regional health and community participation. It integrates the Community Care service within the basic Primary Care services of the National Health System in Aragon. This service addresses the population's health problems, needs, and inequalities through community participation.
Primary Care Teams deliver it via two methods: Community Activities and Local Health Councils. EACA aims to implement community care at all levels of primary care work—individual, group, and community.
Objectives:
1. Promote salutogenic orientation
2. Reduce medicalization, promoting patient autonomy and social prescribing
3. Generate organizational capacity in health services
4. Facilitate continuous training
5. Promote collaboration to develop healthy policies, intersectorality, and networking
Lines of Action for Primary Care Teams:
1. Creation of the community agenda as a tool for the team's community orientation
2. Development of community care projects
3. Asset-based community care
Each line includes its own planning, tools, and evaluation. The strategy involves five coordinated actions for its implementation:
1. Multidisciplinary training program
2. Technical support from Public Health and other health department areas
3. Scientific support
4. Local health networks
5. Dissemination plan
EACA implements the Spanish Strategic Framework for Primary & Community Care of the Ministry of Health in Aragón.