Primary health care
Subtitle: people, practice, place
By: [edited] by Valorie A. Crooks and Gavin J. Andrews.
Contributors: Crooks, Valorie A., 1976-; Andrews, Gavin J., 1970-
Series: Ashgate's geographies of health series
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780754672470
Subjects: Medical geography; Primary care (Medicine); Primary Health Care; Geography; Health Services Accessibility; Healthcare Disparities; Social Environment
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Thinking geographically about primary health care / Valorie A. Crooks and Gavin J. Andrews; title: Geographical perspectives on health care : ideas, disciplines, progress / Gavin J. Andrews and Valorie A. Crooks; title: Access and utilization reconsidered : towards a broader understanding of the spatial ordering of primary health care / Neil Hanlon; title: The effects of population density, physical distance, and socio-economic vulnerability on access to primary health care in rural and remote British Columbia, Canada / Nadine Schuurman; title: The role of scale in conceptualizing primary health care practice : considering social and institutional structures and systems / Janine L. Wiles and Mark W. Rosenberg; title: Cloaked selective primary health care? : local observations of rural primary health care clinics in Perú / Leah Gold; title: Geographies of family medicine : describing the family doctor's practice-based landscape of care / Gina Agarwal; title: The place of nursing in primary health care / Jennifer Lapum ... [et al.]; title: Reinventing primary care : the New Zealand case compared / Ross Barnett and Pauline Barnett; title: New health geographies of complementary, alternative, and traditional medicines in primary health care / Daniel Hollenberg and Ivy Bourgeault; title: Considering the clinic environment : implications for practice and primary health care / Valorie A. Crooks and Gina Agarwal; title: Within and beyond clinics : primary health care and community participation / Robin Kearns and Pat Neuwelt; title: Providers of care in the home : sustainable partners in primary health care? / Nicole M. Yantzi and Mark W. Skinner; title: On the street : primary health care for difficult to reach populations / David Conradson and Graham Moon; title: The geographies of primary health care : a summary and agenda / Valorie A. Crooks and Gavin J. Andrews.