[Belgian medical houses: a post-68 accident or an enduring mode of organization?].

The names of health houses vary from one country to another and according to the specific organizational history of healthcare provision. Yet their current mode of organization and the type of services which they make available to the public largely tend to converge. One of their shared objectives is for health houses to constitute "a first line" of health and healthcare provision, amidst a general crisis of general medical practice but also among paramedical workers.

[Towards Unity for Health" criteria applied to medical centers in Belgium].

Objective: To describe the Belgian medical centers' experience against TUFH criteria. To identify convergences, strengths and weaknesses, and suggest explanations. To present current dynamics in medical centers.