Primary Care: Understanding Health Need and Demand

ISBN-13: 9781857752373 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 91 str.

Anne Rogers;Npcrdc

Opis

The National Primary Care Research and Development Centre series provides policy makers, commissioners, managers, primary care professionals and user organizations with up-to-date multi-disciplinary research on important issues that inform future decision making for primary care development. This book examines the key factors shaping the relationship between demand for, and use of, primary care. It provides a detailed picture with which to inform the planning of appropriate, acceptable and responsive primary care services. Patients' perceptions are important, not only because they are a barometer of the appropriateness and effectiveness of services, but because they are a unique source of knowledge about the way in which people use services when they do, for the reasons that they do. This book concisely presents empirical findings and summarizes key policy and conceptual issues. Other titles in the National Primary Care Research and Development Centre series: NPCRDC: What is the Future for a Primary Care-led NHS? NPCRDC: Primary Care and Social Services: developing new partnerships for older people NPCRDC: Better Building for Better Services NPCRDC: Specialist Outreach Clinics in General Practice NPCRDC: Primary Health Care and the Private Secto

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Anne Rogers, Heather Eliott