Breaking point
Subtitle: how the primary care crisis endangers the lives of Americans
By: John Geyman
Publisher: Copernicus Healthcare
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Friday Harbor, WA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9780983773405; 9780983773412
Subjects: Primary Care Physicians; Quality of Health Care; Primary health care; Health Services Accessibility; Health Policy; Health care reform; Primary Health Care; Medical policy; Specialization
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Crumbling foundation of U.S. health care; title: The silent decline of primary care: toward headless and heartless care; title: Dimensions and system impacts of today's primary care crisis; title: Upside-down health care: impacts on patients and their families; title: What other advanced countries know: what is primary care and why do we need it?; title: Generalism vs. specialism: myths and misconceptions about primary care; title: The inexorable decline in primary care; title: Attempts to rebuild primary care; title: Lessons from failed attempts to rebuild primary care; title: Rebuilding and transforming primary care; title: Is there a (happy) doctor in the house? : Policy alternatives for the physician workforce; title: Lessons from other countries; title: Progress towards new models of primary care; title: An agenda for rebuilding and transforming primary care; title: The coming burst of the health care bubble.