Primary Health Care: People, Practice, Place

by Crooks,Valorie A.

• ISBN13: 9780754672470
• ISBN10: 0754672476
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-12-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Health care is constantly undergoing change and refinement resulting from the adoption of new practices and technologies, the changing nature of societies and populations, and also shifts in the very places from which care is delivered. Primary Health Care: People, Practice, Place draws together significant contributions from established experts across a variety of disciplines to focus on such changes in primary health care, not only because it is the most basic and integral form of health service delivery, but also because it is an area to which geographers have made significant contributions and to which other scholars have engaged in 'thinking geographically' about its core concepts and issues. Including perspectives from both consumers and producers, it moves beyond geographical accounts of the context of health service provision through its explicit focus on the practice of primary health care.With arguments well-supported by empirical research, this book will appeal not only to scholars across a range of social and health sciences, but also to professionals involved in health services.

Table of Contents

Thinking geographically about primary health care

Geographical perspectives on health care: ideas, disciplines, progress

Practice and Delivery: Access and utilization reconsidered: towards a broader understanding of the spatial ordering of primary health care

The effects of population density, physical distance and socio-economic vulnerability on access to primary health care in rural and remote British Columbia, Canada

The role of scale in conceptualizing primary health care practice: considering social and institutional structures and systems

Cloaked selective primary health care? Local observations of rural primary health care clinics in Perú

People

Geographies of family medicine: describing the family doctor's practice-based landscape of care

The place of nursing in primary health care

Sandra Chen

Reinventing primary care: the New Zealand case compared

New health geographies of complementary, alternative and traditional medicines in primary health care

Places and Settings

Considering the clinical environment: implications for practice and primary health care

Within and beyond clinics: primary health care and community participation

Providers of care in the home: sustainable partners in primary health care?

On the street: primary health care for difficult to reach populations

Agenda Setting

The geographies of primary health care: a summary and agenda

Index

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