Primary care : balancing health needs, services, and technology /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1998.
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| Edition: | Revised edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. Primary care and health
- Primary care and its relationship to health
- A framework for measuring primary care
- Morbidity in primary care
- pt. 2. Primary care practice
- Describing primary care
- Primary care, subspecialists, and non-physician practitioners
- Primary care in the context of health systems
- pt. 3. Accountability in primary care
- Accessibility and first-contact use: the "Gate"
- Patient lists and person-focused care over time
- Practitioner-patient interactions
- Comprehensiveness of care: Who should provide what
- Coordination of care: putting it all together
- pt. 4. Patients and populations
- Quality of primary care services: a clinical view
- Evaluation of primary care: a population view
- Public health and community-oriented primary care
- pt. 5. Health policy and primary care
- Primary care systems in western industralized nations
- Information systems for primary care
- Primary care research needs
- Health policies to achieve effectiveness and equity
- Epilogue
- Appendix. the Child health systems primary care assessment tool.