Description
This book adopts an interdisciplinary approach with a wide scope of perspectives on primary healthcare, describing related principles, care models, practices and social contexts. It combines aspects of development, research and education applied in primary health care, providing practitioners and scholars with a comprehensive overview of the current knowledge and delivery models of healthcare in community settings. It covers the practical, philosophical and scholarly issues pertinent to the delivery, financing, planning, ethics, health politics, professional and technological development, resources, and monitoring in primary health care. Contributors are from a diverse range of academic and professional backgrounds, bringing together collective expertise in mainstream medicine, nursing, allied health, Chinese medicine, health economics, administration, law, public policy, housing management, information technology and mass communications. As such, the book does not follow the common clinical practice or service-based approach found in most texts on primary care.The contents will serve as a useful reference work for policymakers, researchers, community health practitioners, health executives and higher education students.
Table of Contents
1.Renewal of Primary Care.- 2.Philosophy in Primary Health Care Policy and District Health Systems.- 3.Economics, Demands and Financial Considerations in Primary Care.- 4.Sustainable Health Care Systems.- 5.The Role of the Mass Media in Primary Care.- 6.Public Private Partnership in Primary Care.- 7.Care Models and Practices of Mental Health Care.- 8.Integrated Care and Roles of Community Health Practitioners.- 9.Community Health Centres and Capacity Building.- 10.Health in workplaces.- 11.Child and adolescent care.- 12.Men’s and women’s care.- 13.Ageing population and elderly care.- 14.Palliative care and end of life issues.- Social Context.- 15.Equity, quality and gate-keeping.- 16.Social responsibility and ethics in community health care.- 17.Health seeking behaviour - Doctor shopping.- 18.Non-government organisations and volunteers.- 19.Social marketing in health promotion and behaviours in lifestyle modification.- 20.Primary care in the context of environment and housing.- 21.Emergency services and preparedness for disasters.- Development, Research and Education .- 22.Knowledge management and transfer.- 23.Lifelong education for providers and community.- 24.Development and application and mobile technology and Internet-of-Things to aid primary care.- 25.Research needs and funding.- 26.A comprehensive framework for measuring primary care.- 27.The WHO Healthy City and health promoting schools movement.- 28.A comprehensive framework for measuring primary care.
