The contribution of family medicine to improving health systems : a guidebook from the World Organization of Family Doctors /
Kidd, Michael R.,1959-
World Organization of National Colleges, Academies, and Academic Associations of General Practitioners/Family Physicians.
London : Radcliffe Publishing,
[2013]
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: 1.1.Identifying people's current and evolving health needs -- 1.2.Responding to people's health needs -- 1.3.Meeting the challenges and convincing the leadership -- 2.1.Values of health systems -- 2.2.Goals of health systems -- 2.3.Functions of health systems -- 2.4.Trends affecting health service delivery -- 2.5.Challenges to optimal health service delivery -- 2.6.Meeting the challenges through primary health care -- 2.7.Strategies for implementing primary health care -- 3.1.The nature of family medicine -- 3.2.Family doctors' contributions to health care -- 3.3.Family doctors as effective clinicians -- 3.4.Family doctors as health care coordinators -- 3.5.Family doctors as leaders, managers, and supervisors -- 4.1.What is family medicine education and training? -- 4.2.Why is family medicine education and training different? -- 4.3.How should family medicine education and training be implemented? -- 4.4.Family medicine teaching programs --
Note continued: 4.5.Transitioning from education to practice -- 5.1.Promoting positive relationships -- 5.2.Establishing professional organizations for family doctors -- 5.3.Financing primary health care services and family doctors -- 5.4.Improving access to primary care -- 5.5.Supporting primary care research -- 5.6.Enhancing quality of care and outcomes -- 5.7.Moving ahead -- 6.1.The Brazilian Unified Health System: primary health care in action -- 6.2.Promoting universal primary health services in China through general practice reforms -- 6.3.Family practice progress and prospects in countries of the Eastern Mediterranean -- 6.4.Family medicine and community orientation as a new approach of quality primary care in Thailand -- A.Declaration of Alma-Ata -- B.Reorientation of medical education and medical practice for health for all -- C.Extract from World Health Report 2008: Primary Health Care -- Now More Than Ever -- D.WHO-WONCA collaboration.
Family medicine.