Primary Health Care: Public Involvement, Family Medicine, Epidemiology, and Health Economics

Front Matter....Pages I-XIII
Introduction....Pages 1-6
Front Matter....Pages 7-7
Principles and Aims of a Future Health Policy....Pages 9-14
Health for All by the Year 2000: Economic Aspects of a European Health Policy for the 1980s and 1990s....Pages 15-22
Conditions of Regional Health Care in Research and Practice....Pages 23-29
The “Primary Health Care for the Citizens of a Region” Associations Forum: A First Report....Pages 30-42
Front Matter....Pages 43-43
The Use of Clinical Judgment to Evaluate the Therapeutic Efficacy of Critical Care Units....Pages 45-55
Education and Research in Family Medicine....Pages 56-64
Towards Family Sensitive Health Care....Pages 65-76
Analysis of the Scope of Action in General Medicine and Its Empirical Control....Pages 77-88
Organization and Research Program of the Netherlands Institute of Primary Health Care....Pages 89-100
Health Center: Integrated Primary Health Care Resources and Services Within the District and Coordinative Role of General Practice....Pages 101-118
Front Matter....Pages 119-119
Health Promotion of Chronically Ill Heart Patients....Pages 121-135
Regional Variation in the Supply of Medical Care and in “Avoidable Mortality” Within Countries of the European Community....Pages 136-143
Teaching Clinical Epidemiology in a School of Medicine: Opportunities and Challenges....Pages 144-151
Results From a Hypertension Care Program in One of the Swedish Counties....Pages 152-161
Front Matter....Pages 163-163
Performance Review in British Primary Health Care: An Epidemiological and Economic Evaluation....Pages 165-179
Primary Medical Care Financing and Physician Payment Systems: A European Perspective....Pages 181-199
Health Economics Aspects of Multimorbidity in Outpatient Medical Care....Pages 201-222
Medical Care and Social Security....Pages 223-231
Costs and Effectiveness of Alternative Approaches to the Care of the Mentally Handicapped: Illustrations with Irish Data....Pages 232-238
Front Matter....Pages 163-163
Reducing the Social Costs of Alcohol Abuse — Selecting Targets for Intersector Planning and Action....Pages 239-249
Front Matter....Pages 251-251
Institutionalizing Primary Health Care at the Level of Undergraduate Education — Didactic and Structural Considerations....Pages 253-262
Institutional Requirements for a Regional Comprehensive Health Care System: A Panel Discussion....Pages 263-270