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Primary Health Care : Theory and Practice.
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 t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chichester :
John Wiley & Sons,
2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Primary Health Care : THEORY AND PRACTICE; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Foreword; 1 Introduction; 1.1 What is primary (health) care?; 1.2 What is academic study?; 1.3 What are theories ƒ and why do we need them?; 2 The 'ologies' (underpinning academic disciplines) of primary health care; 2.1 Biomedical sciences; 2.2 Epidemiology; 2.3 Psychology; 2.4 Sociology; 2.5 Anthropology; 2.6 Literary theory; 2.7 Philosophy and ethics; 2.8 Pedagogy; 3 Research methods for primary health care; 3.1 What is good research in primary health care?; 3.2 Qualitative research; 3.3 Quantitative research.
- 3.4 Questionnaire research3.5 Participatory ('action') research; 3.6 Research data ƒ and analysing it; 3.7 Critical appraisal of published research papers; 3.8 Systematic review; 3.9 Multi-level approaches to primary care problems; 4 The person who is ill; 4.1 The sick role; 4.2 The illness narrative; 4.3 Lifestyle choices and 'changing behaviour'; 4.4 Self-management; 4.5 Health literacy; 5 The primary care clinician; 5.1 The role of the generalist; 5.2 Clinical method I: rationalism and Bayes' theorem; 5.3 Clinical method II: humanism and intuition.
- 5.4 Clinical method III: the patient-centred method5.5 Influencing clinicians' behaviour; 5.6 The 'good' clinician; 6 The clinical interaction; 6.1 The clinical interaction I: a psychological perspective; 6.2 The clinical interaction II: a sociolinguistic perspective; 6.3 The clinical interaction III: a psychodynamic perspective; 6.4 The clinical interaction IV: a literary perspective; 6.5 The interpreted consultation; 7 The family ƒ or lack of one; 7.1 Family structure in the late modern world; 7.2 The motherƒchild relationship (or will any significant other do these days?)
- 7.3 Illness in the family ƒ nature, nurture and culture7.4 Homelessness; 8 The population; 8.1 Describing disease in populations; 8.2 Explaining the 'causes' of disease; 8.3 Detecting disease in populations; 8.4 'Risk': an epidemiological can of worms?; 9 The community; 9.1 Unpacking health inequalities I: deprivation; 9.2 Unpacking health inequalities II: social networks and social capital; 9.3 Unpacking health inequalities III: life course epidemiology and 'risk regulators'; 9.4 Developing healthy communities I: community oriented primary care.
- 9.5 Developing healthy communities II: participatory approaches10 Complex problems in a complex system; 10.1 Illness in the twenty-first century: chronicity, comorbidity and the need for coordination; 10.2 Coordinating care across professional and organisational boundaries; 10.3 The electronic patient record: a road map for seamless care?; 10.4 The end of an era?; 11 Quality; 11.1 Defining and measuring quality; 11.2 A rational biomedical perspective: evidence-based targets, planned change and criterion-based audit; 11.3 A narrative perspective: significant event audit.