The Future of Primary Care

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

ISBN 0787972436   Pages 352 ISBN13 9780787972431 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher John Wiley & Sons Inc   Weight (grammes) 421 Imprint Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S.   Published in New York Format Paperback   Series title Public Health/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Anthology Publication date 17 Feb 2004   Height (mm) 231 Library of Congress 2003020016   Width (mm) 152 DEWEY 610.2373   Spine width (mm) 23 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Professional / Scholarly

		Preface
		The Authors
1		Primary Care in Crisis: Current Pressures and Threats to Primary Care as We Know It by Gordon T. Moore		3
2		Primary Care Performance: Views from the Patient by Dana Gelb Safran		17
3		The Internet, Complementary and Alternative Medicine, and Self-Care by Bernard Lo		40
4		Deconstructing Primary Care by Barbara Starfield		61
5		Nontraditional Approaches to Primary Care Delivery by Helen Burstin and Carolyn Clancy		89
6		The Specialist as Primary Care Provider by Harry R. Kimball		109
7		Advanced Practice Nurses: The Preferred Primary Care Providers for the Twenty-First Century by Mary O'Neil Mundinger		120
8		Is Primary Care Worthy of Physicians? An Ecological Perspective by Larry A. Green		143
9		Primary Care in a New Era: Disillusion and Dissolution? by Lewis Sandy and Steven Schroeder		161
10		Chronic Illness Management in Primary Care by Arlyss Anderson Rothman and Edward H. Wagner		180
11		Reconstructing Primary Care of the Elderly by Eric B. Larson		203
12		Palliative Care and Primary Care: Opportunities for Cooperation and Improvement by Christine Cassel and Beth Demel		223
13		Alcohol, Drug, and Mental Disorders, Psychosocial Problems, and Behavioral Interventions in Primary Care by Harold A. Pincus		243
14		Primary Care for Children and Adolescents by Michael Weitzman and Jonathan D. Klein and Tina L. Cheng		276
15		Primary Care: The Next Renaissance by Jonathan Showstack and Nicole Lurie and Eric B. Larson and Arlyss Anderson Rothman and Susan B. Hassmiller		301
		Name Index		313
		Subject Index		320

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

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