This comprehensive work provides a lucid examination of the difficult problems that arise with the implementation of effective primary care. The book has four purposes: to help practitioners of primary care und erstand what they do and why; to provide a basis for the training of p rimary care practitioners; to stimulate research that will provide a m ore substantive basis for improvements in primary care; and to help po licy makers understand the difficulties and challenges of primary care and its importance. In addition to discussing systems of primary care and alternative ways of evaluating...