Primary Care: Balancing Health Needs, Services, and Technology (Religion in America)

Starfield, Barbara

ISBN 10: 0195125436 / ISBN 13: 9780195125436

Editore: Oxford University Press, 1998

In. Codice articolo ria9780195125436_new

Riassunto:

This volume provides innovative methods to evaluate the attainment and contributions of primary systems and practitioners. It extends the previous edition by highlighting two additional areas: equity in health services and health, and overlap between clinical medicine and public health. It provides an important basis for future directions in health policy.

Contenuti:

• Preface
• I. Primary Care and Health
• 1: Primary Care and its Relationship to Health
• 2: A Framework for Measuring Primary Care
• 3: Morbidity in Primary Care
• II. Primary Care Practice
• 4: Describing Primary Care
• 5: Primary Care, Subspecialists, and Non-Physician Practitioners
• 6: Primary Care in the Context of Health Systems
• III. Accountability in Primary Care
• 7: Accessibility and First-contact Use: The "Gate"
• 8: Patient Person-Focused Care Over Time
• 9: Practitioner-Patient Interactions
• 10: Comprehensiveness of Care: Who Should Provide What
• 11: Coordination of Care: Putting it All Together
• IV. Patients and Populations
• 12: Quality of Primary Care: A Clinical View
• 13: Evaluation of Primary Care: A Population View
• 14: Public health and Community-Oriented Primary Care
• V. Health Policy and Primary Care
• 15: Primary Care Systems in Western Industrialized Nations
• 16: Information Systems for Primary Care
• 17: Primary Care Research Needs
• 18: Health Policies to Achieve Effectiveness and Equity
• Epilogue
• Appendix: Primary Care Assessment Tool

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Titolo: Primary Care: Balancing Health Needs, ...
Casa editrice: Oxford University Press
Data di pubblicazione: 1998
Legatura: Brossura
Condizione: New