ABSTRACT

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.

chapter 2|20 pages

Geographical Perspectives on Health Care

Ideas, Disciplines, Progress

part 1|71 pages

Practice and Delivery

part 2|71 pages

People

chapter 7|16 pages

Geographies of Family Medicine

Describing the Family Doctor's Practice-Based Landscape of Care

chapter 9|18 pages

Reinventing Primary Care

The New Zealand Case Compared

part 3|73 pages

Places and Settings

chapter 11|16 pages

Considering the Clinic Environment

Implications for Practice and Primary Health Care

chapter 12|18 pages

Within and Beyond Clinics

Primary Health Care and Community Participation

chapter 13|16 pages

Providers of Care in the Home

Sustainable Partners in Primary Health Care?

chapter 14|22 pages

On the Street

Primary Health Care for Difficult to Reach Populations

part 4|15 pages

Agenda Setting

chapter 15|14 pages

The Geographies of Primary Health Care

A Summary and Agenda