Primary Care

Auteur

Anne Rogers, Heather Eliott

Texte du rabat

'How many general practitioners ended up in their roles thanks to a faint breeze nudging them in a given direction? How many successes resulted from failure? Some of the most successful practices were built up from nothing, and some of the happiest doctors spent time not being doctors

Contenu

1. Introduction 2. Patient Need, Demand and Use of Primary Care 3. Perspectives in the Study of Service Utilization 4. Help-Seeking and Health Care as a Social Process 5. The Relevance of Lay Concepts and Experience of Illness for Help-Seeking 6. The Relevance of Social Networks to Help-Seeking 7. Individual Self-Care and Lay Care Provided by Others 8. Organizational Factors Influencing Demand for, and Use of, Services 9. The Impact of Information on Lay Decision-Making 10. Implications for Future Research