Primary Health Care in the Making

Front Matter....Pages I-XXV
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Changing Mentality in Medical Education....Pages 3-10
Medical Education: Proposals for the Future....Pages 11-13
Education in Social Medicine....Pages 14-16
Community Health in Primary Care — A Workshop on Community-Oriented Primary Care....Pages 17-21
Seminars in Clinical Preventive Medicine....Pages 22-24
The Migration of Physicians to the United States — A Study of Candidates for ECFMG Certification, 1969–1982....Pages 25-30
Cooperation Between Different Professions and Lay Personnel....Pages 31-33
The Group Medical Practice — A Prospect for Doctors and Patients?....Pages 34-37
Division of Tasks and Cooperation: Learning Processes in Inter-professional Group Practices....Pages 38-41
Legal, Institutional and Educational Conditions for Interdisciplinary Teamwork Between Allied Health Professions....Pages 42-45
Social Work in Health Care Services....Pages 46-48
Telephone Medicine: A Training Need in a Technological Society....Pages 49-59
Family Counselling Services in the Veneto Region of Italy: Structural and Functional Aspects....Pages 60-66
Health Counselling — A Pilot Programme....Pages 67-69
Primary Prevention by the General Practitioner?....Pages 70-73
Medical and Psychosocial Problems in Primary Care....Pages 74-79
Mental Health Problems in the Offices of General Practitioners and Internists....Pages 80-85
Diagnostic Language in Primary Health Care — A Structural and Semantic Analysis of Diagnoses on Health Service Medical Cards....Pages 86-89
Early Detection of Disorders of Peripheral Circulation in General Practice: A Model for a Research Project of the German Society for General Medicine....Pages 90-94
Effects of the Social Situation on Health and Utilization of Medical Care Services: Results from the Munich Follow-up Study....Pages 95-99
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Social Class and Utilization of Primary Medical Care Services: Class-Specific Patterns of Utilization Behaviour in the Munich Follow-up Study....Pages 100-104
Choice of Best or Cheapest Drugs: A Note on Regulating Drug Supplies....Pages 105-108
Epidemiology of Digitalis Use — Results from a Random Sample of the Munich Population....Pages 109-115
Front Matter....Pages 117-117
Some Relevant Ecological Factors and Their Influence on Pregnancy....Pages 119-121
Some Maternal and Social Factors in Relation to the Birth Weight of Infants....Pages 122-124
The Diagnosis of “Minimal Brain Dysfunction” — Implications for Social Medicine....Pages 125-127
Physical Fitness of Obese Children and Its Relationship to Age, Sex and Nutritional Intake....Pages 128-131
Knowledge, Habits and Standpoints of Novi Sad Adolescents in Relation to Cardiovascular Diseases and Possibilities of Their Prevention as Part of a Comprehensive Community Cardiovascular Control Programme....Pages 132-134
Review of the Results and Recommendations of the Cologne Study....Pages 135-136
Analysis of Suicides in Adolescents and Young Adults: Implications for Prevention....Pages 137-145
“Health Education” — A New Subject in the Secondary Schools of SR Slovenia, SFR Yugoslavia....Pages 146-149
Some Results of the “Schülerstudie Gesundheitserziehung Hamburg”....Pages 150-155
An Ecological Concept of Health Promotion in Child and Youth Work — Projekt Gesundheit/Bund Deutscher Pfadfinder....Pages 156-160
Growing Up into the 1980s: An Ecological Framework for Health Promotion for Youth....Pages 161-166
Industrial Jobs and Coronary Heart Disease....Pages 167-169
Coronary Prone Behaviour Related to Occupational Stress in a Sample of Male Workers....Pages 170-174
Work Stressors and Coronary Risk: Two Perspectives....Pages 175-178
Some Aspects of the Return to Work After Myocardial Infarction....Pages 179-182
Vocational Rehabilitation in Hypertension and Renal Diseases....Pages 183-187
Occupational Performance of Patients with Multiple Sclerosis....Pages 188-191
Front Matter....Pages 117-117
Mortality and Accidents in the Electrical Industry....Pages 192-196
Nutritional Habits and Their Relation to Health in the Occupational Environment....Pages 197-204
Alcohol in the Working Environment....Pages 205-208
Air Pollution and Health Indicators: Regional Findings for the Netherlands....Pages 209-214
Possibilities and Limits of Data Drawn from the “Gesundenuntersuchung” for an Epidemiological Study of the Connection between Air Quality and Chronic Bronchitis....Pages 215-222
Biological Effect of the Air Quality Measured at the Population Level....Pages 223-226
Family Rehabilitation in Chronic Illness....Pages 227-229
Family Psychology and “Family Confrontation”....Pages 230-234
Who Treats the Chronically Ill: The General Practitioner or the Internist?....Pages 235-239
Compliance — A “Risk Factor” for Chronic Diseases?....Pages 240-243
Non-fatal Myocardial Infarction in Women Under 50 Years of Age, with Reference to Oral Contraceptive Use in Belgrade....Pages 244-248
Rehabilitation After Surgery for Chronic Vascular Disease: Goal and Reality....Pages 249-251
Multiple Sclerosis and Geophysical Factors....Pages 252-255
Chronic Mental Illness: Social Factors and Rehabilitation Outcomes....Pages 256-260
Longitudinal Pattern of Aftercare in a Cohort of Recent Onset Schizophrenics....Pages 261-266
Efforts at Compensation with Regard to Basic Disorders Among Schizophrenics....Pages 267-273
Identification of Specific Patterns of Work Incapacity Related to Chronic Illness: Analysis of Data Gathered by the Health Insurance Funds in Western Germany....Pages 274-280
Migration and Health....Pages 281-283
Sickness in the Process of Migration....Pages 284-287
Illness and Health of Turkish “Citizens” in West Germany as Seen Against the Background of Their Personal Life Narratives....Pages 288-293
Front Matter....Pages 117-117
Studies on Social Hygienic Problems Appertaining to Foreign Children and Their Families in the Federal Republic of Germany....Pages 294-296
The Living Conditions and Education of Turkish Infants in the Federal Republic of Germany: Report on a Model Project in Nürnberg....Pages 297-299
Are New Counselling and Psychotherapeutic Patterns Necessary for Children of Foreign Employees (Guest-workers)? Results of an Epidemiological Study....Pages 300-303
Migration and Health — Thoughts on Past and Current Research....Pages 304-310
Front Matter....Pages 311-311
Health for All by the Year 2000: A Challenge for the Education of Health Personnel....Pages 313-319
Primary Health Care: The Challenge of Participation....Pages 320-325
The Promotion of Health Through Changes in Life-style: Epidemiological, Psychosocial and Ethical Aspects....Pages 326-329
Social Support and Coronary Risk Factors....Pages 330-334
Maternal and Perinatal Death in Indonesian University Obstetrics: Risk Display for Selected Social and Biological Determinants....Pages 335-351
Maternal Transmission of Hepatitis B and Its Prevention....Pages 352-355
Psychosocial Factors in Childhood Diseases in Nigeria: A Preliminary Study....Pages 356-369
Primary Health Care and Feasibility of Yaws Eradication in India....Pages 370-376
Human Resources for Primary Health Care in Developing Countries....Pages 377-380
Evaluation of Polyclinic Services Run by Primary Health Care (PHC) Nurses in Soweto....Pages 381-385
Primary Health Care — A New Strategy? Lessons to Learn from Community Participation....Pages 386-390
The Relation of Pattern of Support for Smoking and Achievement Motive in Young Women....Pages 391-393
On the Effectiveness of Smoking Cessation Treatment Methods....Pages 394-397
Cigarette Smoking, COHb Level and Physical Fitness....Pages 398-401
Reduction of Cigarette Consumption as the Most Important Task of Preventive Medicine and Health Policy....Pages 402-407
A New Approach to Diet Counseling of Overweight Patients and Diabetics....Pages 408-415
Front Matter....Pages 311-311
Adiposity — A Challenge to the General Practitioner in Therapy and Prevention....Pages 416-418
Front Matter....Pages 419-419
High Blood Pressure Control in the Community....Pages 421-423
Epidemiological Study of Hypertension and Stroke in Taiwan....Pages 424-427
Home Blood Pressure Measurement — A Useful Tool in the Management of High Blood Pressure?....Pages 428-433
An Education Program for Instruction in Self Blood Pressure Measurement....Pages 434-435
Serum Insulin and Glucose Tolerance in Obese Patients with or Without Associated Arterial Hypertension....Pages 436-441
The Treatment of High Blood Pressure: Non-Pharmacological and Pharmacological Measures....Pages 442-450
What Can Be Learnt from the Results of the High Blood Pressure Trials?....Pages 451-455
Medical Care Utilization and Self-Reported Health of Hypertensives: Results of the Munich Blood Pressure Study....Pages 456-463
The American National High Blood Pressure Education Program....Pages 464-467
Epidemiological Situation of Cardiovascular Diseases in Slovenia and Possibilities for Prevention and Control....Pages 468-471
Application of Epidemiology in Primary Health Care — Treatment of Hypertension....Pages 472-476
Severity Rating of Hypertension as a Measure of Individual Rehabilitation Effects....Pages 477-482
Cost-Effectiveness of Treating Hypertensives in the Federal Republic of Germany: A Model Analysis....Pages 483-487
Social Differences in the Long-Term Effects of Health Education in Reducing Coronary Risk....Pages 488-494
The Tromsø Heart Study: The Effect of Dietary Intervention in Hyperlipaemic Men — 5-Year Follow-up....Pages 495-499
Health Committees — A Way to Consumer Participation in Health Care Systems....Pages 500-504
A Model for Co-ordinated and Integrated Lifelong Health Security....Pages 505-508
Community Prevention: The Program of the People’s Medical Society....Pages 509-511
The Role of Health Insurance Companies in Primary Prevention....Pages 512-515
Front Matter....Pages 419-419
Health Work in a Working-Class District of Mannheim....Pages 516-520
Health Promotion in A Large City....Pages 521-523
Lay Involvement in the Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease: The Rhein-Neckar Community Study (GRN)....Pages 524-534
Back Matter....Pages 535-548