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The origins of contemporary primary health care

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posted on 2009-01-01, 00:00 authored by Ann TaketAnn Taket
This chapter begins by exploring the concept of primary health care (PHC), linking this to relevant international and national policy documents, and introducing the concept of PHC developed by the World Health Organization. The chapter then focuses on the UK. It explains how PHC is not just found within the NHS, reviews the different sectors involved in PHC, and then discusses the current structure of PHC in the NHS. Key concepts, including the primary health care team, primary care trusts and integrated heath and social care trusts, and the relevant current UK policy documents are introduced.

The chapter then moves on to discuss four important issues in the provision of primary health care in the community: health promotion; tackling health inequalities; health and regeneration; and, tackling domestic violence. The subsection on each of these will explain why the issue is of particular significance and review briefly a number of studies/projects which illustrate what is happening/can be done; this will introduce a range of current research. The chapter concludes with a short review of challenges for the future, emphasising the important role that the nursing profession has to play in meeting these challenges.

History

Title of book

Community Health Care Nursing

Chapter number

3

Pagination

33 - 47

Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Place of publication

Chichester, England

ISBN-13

9781405183406

ISBN-10

1405183403

Edition

4th ed.

Language

eng

Publication classification

B1 Book chapter

Copyright notice

2009, Wiley-Blackwell

Extent

22

Editor/Contributor(s)

D Sines, M Saunders, J Forbes-Burford

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