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    The Future of Primary Care

    Jonathan Showstack (Edited by), J Showstack (Author), Arlyss Anderson Rothman (Edited by), Sue Hasmiller (Edited by)

    9780787972431, Wiley

    Paperback / softback, published 17 February 2004

    352 pages
    23.1 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.426 kg

    "Overall the book is an excellent reference for those interested in primary care practice." (The Journal of Pharmacy Technology; 1/1/2005)

    The Future of Primary Care reports on the principles of organization and delivery of primary care to address the needs of our future population. The Future of Primary Care’s   stellar panel of health care experts includes Barbara Starfield, Dana Gelb Safran, Bernard Lo, and Gordon Moore. They explore topics such as

    · Current dilemmas and threats to primary care from both the clinician’s and patient’s point of view

    · The impact of the self-care and alternative care movements

    · The importance of improved information technologies

    · Individual elements of primary care and the relative value of each element

    · Primary care’s contribution to the overall health of our population

    · Assessing alternative sites and circumstances where primary care may be provided

    · The specialist and nurse as primary care providers

    · The role of primary care in chronic illness management, care for the elderly, long term and home care

    · Exploring recommendations for the future

    Preface ix

    The Authors xiii

    Part One: Primary Care at a Crossroads 1

    1 Primary Care in Crisis: Current Pressures and Threats to Primary Care as We Know It 3
    Gordon T.Moore

    2 Primary Care Performance: Views from the Patient 17
    Dana Gelb Safran

    3 The Internet, Complementary and Alternative Medicine, and Self-Care 40
    Bernard Lo

    Part Two: The Components of Primary Care: Processes and Providers 59

    4 Deconstructing Primary Care 61
    Barbara Starfield

    5 Nontraditional Approaches to Primary Care Delivery 89
    Helen Burstin, Carolyn Clancy

    6 The Specialist as Primary Care Provider 109
    Harry R. Kimball

    7 Advanced Practice Nurses: The Preferred Primary Care Providers for the Twenty-First Century 120
    Mary O’Neil Mundinger

    Part Three: Reconstructing Primary Care for Patients and Populations 141

    8 Is Primary Care Worthy of Physicians? An Ecological Perspective 143
    Larry A. Green

    9 Primary Care in a New Era: Disillusion and Dissolution? 161
    Lewis Sandy, Steven Schroeder

    10 Chronic Illness Management in Primary Care 180
    Arlyss Anderson Rothman, Edward H.Wagner

    11 Reconstructing Primary Care of the Elderly 203
    Eric B. Larson

    12 Palliative Care and Primary Care: Opportunities for Cooperation and Improvement 223
    Christine Cassel, Beth Demel

    13 Alcohol, Drug, and Mental Disorders, Psychosocial Problems, and Behavioral Interventions in Primary Care 243
    Harold A. Pincus

    14 Primary Care for Children and Adolescents 276
    Michael Weitzman, Jonathan D. Klein, Tina L. Cheng

    Part Four: Recommendations for the Future 299

    15 Primary Care: The Next Renaissance 301
    Jonathan Showstack, Nicole Lurie, Eric B. Larson, Arlyss Anderson Rothman, Susan B. Hassmiller

    Name Index 313

    Subject Index 320

    Subject Areas: Medicine: general issues [MB]
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