Primary Health Care Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Practice
This book is about four ways of using the consultation in primary health care. One ofthem is very familiar, the other three a little less so. But they should all be as much a part of the repertoire of doctor or nurse as examining some system of the body or relieving pain and discomfort. If each is n...
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| Language: | English |
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London
Springer London
1983, 1983
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1983 |
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Meeting the Patient: Ideals and Realities
- Reasons for Consulting Patterns
- 2. Extending the Consultation Goals
- The Surface Anatomy of Primary Health Care
- 3. From Episodic to Continuing Care
- Continuing Care as Part of the Discipline of PHC
- Familiarity and Familiarity Blindness
- Methods Which Can Facilitate Continuing Care (Area C)
- Conclusions
- 4. Help Seeking: How, Where, Why, Wither?
- The Meaning of Health and Illness
- What Is the Practical Importance of Having an Understanding of Help Seeking?
- Help Seeking and its Modification: Concluding Examples
- 5. Primary Opportunistic and Anticipatory Health Care
- Three Sources of Innovation
- The Antecedents of Health Behaviours
- Levels of Opportunistic Anticipatory Care
- Skills and Practices in Opportunistic Anticipatory Care
- Priorities for Anticipatory Care
- Presymptomatic Diagnosis
- Conclusions
- 6. The Refuge: Ethics, Practices and Problems
- Five Themes and an Ethical Dilemma
- The Burning Question
- The International Discipline of Primary Health Care
- Appendix I Declaration of Alma-Ata
- Appendix II Hand-out for Clinical Tutors in Primary Health Care