PRIMARY CARE IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
an international perspective
2006168 pages Paperback
ISBN-10 1 85775 711 4
ISBN-13 9781857757118
Geoff Meads, Visiting Professor, Universities of Warwick, Winchester and Derby
Foreword by Yvonne Carter, Dean of Warwick Medical School, Practising GP and past Chair of RCGP Research Committee, NHS Primary Care Research and Development Awards Committee, Governor of the Health Foundation
Description
What is really happening in the world of primary care today?
This is an easy to read, no-nonsense account that provides a comprehensive and accessible overview of primary care theory and reviews the future of general practice from an international perspective.
Particular emphasis is placed on innovations in developing countries and lessons for modernising primary care organisations in the West. There are also helpful healthcare system summaries of twenty-four countries.
Primary Care in the Twenty-first Century provides a vital overview for healthcare policy makers and shapers. Primary healthcare professionals with an interest in learning from best practice from around the world will find this book invaluable, as will students of medicine and nursing, and international health and patient organisations.
‘This book is a welcome addition to the literature on international primary care. It illuminates the importance of comparative models in different healthcare systems and deals systematically with the subject. Understanding the issues that face primary care teams around the world is an important concept in preparing for future challenges and this book clearly, concisely and very readably summarises the global story.’
Yvonne Carter, in the Foreword
Review Quotes 'This book details a very personal journey and provides a wealth of information. Geoff Meads has an impressive view point from which to survey the shifting sands of general practice.' DOCTORS.NET.UK
'Easy to read. A welcome addition to the literature on international primary care. A very readable book which will prove a very useful tool for all primary healthcare professionals with an interest in learning from best practice from around the world.'
AMPSPAR PROFESSIONAL
‘The structure is clearly defined and the chapters are well displayed with boxed text. Each chapter contains a report on the state of primary care in selected countries and is accompanied by some excellent photographs. Useful. Excellent.’ JOURNAL OF COMMUNITY NURSING
 International Approach Future options for family medicine The extended general practice The managed care enterprise The reformed polyclinic The district health system The community development system The outreach franchise Transferable learning
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