Research Catalog

Title

Primary care : balancing health needs, services, and technology / Barbara Starfield.

Author

Starfield, Barbara.

Publication

New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.

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Details

Description

ix, 438 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subjects

• Soins de santé primaires
• Medical care
• Primary Health Care
• Primary care (Medicine) > United States
• Soins de santé primaires > États-Unis
• Soins médicaux

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

I. Primary Care and Health -- 1. Primary Care and Its Relationship to Health -- 2. A Framework for Measuring Primary Care -- 3. Morbidity in Primary Care -- II. Primary Care Practice -- 4. Describing Primary Care -- 5. Primary Care, Subspecialists, and Non-Physician Practitioners -- 6. Primary Care in the Context of Health Systems -- III. Accountability in Primary Care -- 7. Accessibility and First-Contact Use: The "Gate" -- 8. Patient Lists and Person-focused Care Over Time -- 9. Practitioner-Patient Interactions -- 10. Comprehensiveness of Care: Who Should Provide What -- 11. Coordination of Care: Putting It All Together -- IV. Patients and Populations -- 12. Quality of Primary Care Services: A Clinical View -- 13. Evaluation of Primary Care: A Population View -- 14. Public Health and Community-Oriented Primary Care -- V. Health Policy and Primary Care -- 15. Primary Care Systems in Western Industrialized Nations -- 16. Information Systems for Primary Care -- 17. Primary Care Research Needs -- 18. Health Policies to Achieve Effectiveness and Equity. App. The Child Health Systems Primary Care Assessment Tool.

ISBN

• 0195125428 (cloth)
• 0195125436 (paper)

LCCN

98010794

OCLC

• ocm38216563
• SCSB-5096932

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries