Primary care : balancing health needs, services, and technology /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Starfield, Barbara
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
Edition:Revised edition.
Subjects:
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.