Primary Health Care

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; and 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. From the foreword by Julian Tudor Hart - "Trish Greenhalgh, in her frequent columns in the British Medical Journal... more than any other medical journalist spoke to her fellow GPs in the language of experience, but never without linking this to our expanding knowledge from the whole of human science. When I compare the outlines of primary care so lucidly presented in this wonderful book, obviously derived from rich experience of real teaching and learning, with the grand guignol theatre of London medical schools when I was a student 1947-52, the advance is stunning." "Trish Greenhalgh is one of the international stars of general practice and a very clever thinker. This new book is a wonderful resource for primary health care and general practice. Every general practice registrar should read this book and so should every general practice teacher and primary care researcher." - Professor Michael Kidd, Head of the Department of General Practice, University of Sydney and Immediate Past President of The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners. "This important new book by one of primary care's most accomplished authors sets out clearly the academic basis for further developments in primary health care. Health systems will only function effectively if they recognise the importance of high quality primary care so I strongly recommend this book to students, teachers, researchers, practitioners and policy makers." - Professor Martin Marshall, Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health, UK.

ISBN 0727917854   Volumes 1 ISBN13 9780727917850 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 466 Publisher BMJ Publishing Group   Published in London Imprint BMJ Books   Series title ABC Format Paperback   Height (mm) 227 Publication date 15 Aug 2007   Width (mm) 154 Library of Congress 2007003618   Spine width (mm) 18 DEWEY 362.1   Academic level Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC22   Alternative ISBN 9780470691779 Pages 336

1		Introduction		1
2		The 'ologies' (underpinning academic disciplines) of primary health care		23
3		Research methods for primary health care		57
4		The person who is ill		90
5		The primary care clinician		115
6		The clinical interaction		146
7		The family - or lack of one		175
8		The population		202
9		The community		225
10		Complex problems in a complex system		248
11		Quality		273

"Trish Greenhalgh is one of the international stars of general practice and a very clever thinker. This new book is a wonderful new resource for primary health care and general practice. Every general practice registrar should read this book and so should every general practice teacher and every primary care researcher." * Professor Michael Kidd, Head of the Department of General Practice, The University of Sydney and Immediate Past President of The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners "General practice in the U.K. is responsible for more patient care than ever before, and its input to medical training and research is at an all-time high. But its broadening roles and changing political context are at risk of causing an identity crisis. We are fortunate that Professor Trish Greenhalgh has brought her passion, intelligence and scholarship to bear on one of the key questions for health professionals today - what is the best of primary care about, and why is it essential for patients and doctors? She encourages debate while supporting and inspiring primary care, because she tells a modern story of a discipline whose purpose is valuable and which can rise to its new challenges. I am personally very glad to have read this timely and exciting book." * Amanda Howe MA MD MEd FRCGP ILT(M), Professor of Primary Care & MB/BS Course Director Institute of Health University of East Anglia Norwich NR4 7TJ Norfolk "This book meets a real need for a lively, engaging and perceptive book that brings together the population with the individual perspective and describes the key concepts that underpin contemporary primary care with admirable clarity. This book deserves tobecome a classic and will be welcomed by enquiring undergraduates and postgraduates alike who want a book that will both challenge and inform." * Professor Andy Haines, Director, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK "This important new book by one of primary care's most accomplished authors sets out clearly the academic basis for further developments in primary health care. Health systems will only function effectively if they recognise the importance of high quality primary care so I strongly recommend this book to students, teachers, researchers, practitioners and policy makers." * Professor Martin Marshall, Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health

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