Primary health care : theory and practice / Trisha Greenhalgh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Greenhalgh, Trisha.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Primary care (Medicine).

Primary Health Care.

Health Services Research.

Medical Subjects:

Primary Health Care.

Health Services Research.

Physical Description:

xix, 316 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Malden, Mass. : Blackwell/BMJ Books, 2007.

Summary:

General practitioners and other primary care professionals have a leading role in contemporary health care, which Trisha Greenhalgh explores in this highly praised new text. She provides perceptive and engaging insights into primary health care, focussing on: its intellectual roots, its impact on the individual, the family and the community, the role of the multidisciplinary team, contemporary topics such as homelessness, ethnic health and electronic records. Concise summaries, highlighted boxes, extensive referencing and a dedicated section on effective learning make this essential reading for postgraduate students, tutors and researchers in primary care.

Contents:

The 'ologies' (underpinning academic disciplines) of primary health care

Research methods for primary health care

The person who is ill

The primary care clinician

The clinical interaction

The family: or lack of one

The population

The community

Complex problems in a complex system

Quality.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0727917854

9780727917850

OCLC:

81252714

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