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.
Preface; I. Primary Care and Health; Primary Care and its Relationship to Health; A Framework for Measuring Primary Care; Morbidity in Primary Care; II. Primary Care Practice; Describing Primary Care; Primary Care, Subspecialists, and Non-Physician Practitioners; Primary Care in the Context of Health Systems; III. Accountability in Primary Care; Accessibility and First-contact Use:: The Gate; Patient Person-Focused Care Over Time; Practitioner-Patient Interactions; Comprehensiveness of Care:: Who Should Provide What; Coordination of Care:: Putting it All Together; IV. Patients and Populations; Quality of Primary Care:: A Clinical View; Evaluation of Primary Care:: A Population View; Public health and Community-Oriented Primary Care; V. Health Policy and Primary Care; Primary Care Systems in Western Industrialized Nations; Information Systems for Primary Care; Primary Care Research Needs; Health Policies to Achieve Effectiveness and Equity; Epilogue; Appendix:: Primary Care Assessment Tool;
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