Primary care : balancing health needs, services, and technology /
Starfield, Barbara.
Primary care : balancing health needs, services, and technology / Barbara Starfield. - Rev. ed. - New York : Oxford University Press, 1998. - ix, 438 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
CW017
Includes bibliographical references and index.
[PART 1 Primary care and health] Primary care and its relationship to health -- A framework for measuring primary care -- Morbidity in primary care [PART 2 Primary care practice] Describing primary care -- Primary care, subspecialists, and non-physician practitioners -- Primary care in the context of health systems. [PART 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 [PART 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. [PART 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.
9780195125429 9780195125436 0195125428
98010794
Primary care (Medicine)--United States
Primary care (Medicine)
Medical care.
Clinical & internal medicine
General practice
Social services & welfare, criminology
/ S72 1998
362.1
Primary care : balancing health needs, services, and technology / Barbara Starfield. - Rev. ed. - New York : Oxford University Press, 1998. - ix, 438 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
CW017
Includes bibliographical references and index.
[PART 1 Primary care and health] Primary care and its relationship to health -- A framework for measuring primary care -- Morbidity in primary care [PART 2 Primary care practice] Describing primary care -- Primary care, subspecialists, and non-physician practitioners -- Primary care in the context of health systems. [PART 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 [PART 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. [PART 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.
9780195125429 9780195125436 0195125428
98010794
Primary care (Medicine)--United States
Primary care (Medicine)
Medical care.
Clinical & internal medicine
General practice
Social services & welfare, criminology
/ S72 1998
362.1