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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|71 pages
Practice and Delivery
chapter 3|14 pages
Access and Utilization Reconsidered
chapter 5|18 pages
The Role of Scale in Conceptualizing Primary Health Care Practice
part 2|71 pages
People
chapter 7|16 pages
Geographies of Family Medicine
part 3|73 pages
Places and Settings
chapter 11|16 pages
Considering the Clinic Environment
part 4|15 pages
Agenda Setting