Tipping the balance towards primary health care
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Tipping the balance towards primary health care
Avebury, c1995
Available at 4 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 226-235)
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This is a study of primary health care. It examines decentralization in health care, community participation and skills development, resource allocation and monitoring, practice, training and research and other issues. Case studies are provided on different countries.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 The agenda for change: tipping the balance toward primary health care - the agenda for change, Tom Rathwell and Joana Godhino
- managing decentralization in primary health care, Tom Rathwell
- indicators for resource allocation and monitoring in primary health care, Rosario Giraldes and John Daley
- community participation and skills development, Marjorie Gott
- tipping the balance towards primary health care - practice, training and research, Joana Godhino and Marjorie Gott. Part 2 Country case studies: Finland - managing decentralization in primary health care
- Ireland - anorganizational and managerial model for the decentralized delivery of services
- Portugal - indicators to improve decision-making and resource allocation processes
- Portugal - evaluation of the quality of medical referral to a mental health clinic
- Spain - evaluating the primary health care reforms
- Spain - reducing inequalities for pregnant women by means of primary health care
- Sweden - to strengthen confidence in PHC by changing the communication interface between PHC, the hospital and patients
- Sweden - health promotion through discussion with the general public
- Sweden - primary prevention of cardiac and arterial disease by opportunistic screening
- Sweden - monitoring of primary health care
- Sweden - planning and budgeting of PHC
- Sweden - activities of local political boards of PHC
- Sweden - decentralization of primary health care
- United Kingdom - care of the frail elderly in community-based nursing homes supported by PHC
- UK - primary prevention of cardiac and arterial disease - Dudley healthy lifestyle project
- UK - decentralized locality management in community health services
- UK - increasing local democracy through the introduction of neighbourhood forums
- UK - reducing perinatal mortality - a community initiative
- UK - the patch project - an exercise in lay decision-making
- UK - an assessment of community participation in an inner-city PHC facility
- Yugoslavia - optimal development and utilization of primary health care.
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