Primary health care : people, practice, place / edited by Valorie A. Crooks, Gavin J. Andrews

Published:: Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2009]
Copyright Date:: ©2009
Physical Description:: xvi, 280 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Additional Creators:: Crooks, Valorie A., 1976- and Andrews, Gavin J., 1970-

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Ashgate's geographies of health series

Contents:

Thinking geographically about primary health care / Valorie A. Crooks and Gavin J. Andrews -- Geographical perspectives on health care : ideas, disciplines, progress / Gavin J. Andrews and Valorie A. Crooks -- Access and utilization reconsidered : towards a broader understanding of the spatial ordering of primary health care / Neil Hanlon -- 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 -- The role of scale in conceptualizing primary health care practice : considering social and institutional structures and systems / Janine L. Wiles and Mark W. Rosenberg -- Cloaked selective primary health care? : local observations of rural primary health care clinics in Perú / Leah Gold -- Geographies of family medicine : describing the family doctor's practice-based landscape of care / Gina Agarwal -- and The place of nursing in primary health care / Jennifer Lapum ... [et al.] -- Reinventing primary care : the New Zealand case compared / Ross Barnett and Pauline Barnett -- New health geographies of complementary, alternative, and traditional medicines in primary health care / Daniel Hollenberg and Ivy Bourgeault -- Considering the clinic environment : implications for practice and primary health care / Valorie A. Crooks and Gina Agarwal -- Within and beyond clinics : primary health care and community participation / Robin Kearns and Pat Neuwelt -- Providers of care in the home : sustainable partners in primary health care? / Nicole M. Yantzi and Mark W. Skinner -- On the street : primary health care for difficult to reach populations / David Conradson and Graham Moon -- The geographies of primary health care : a summary and agenda / Valorie A. Crooks and Gavin J. Andrews.

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ISBN:

9780754672470 (alk. paper)
0754672476 (alk. paper)

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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