Primary Health Care: People, Practice, Place

Economic, demographic, and social pressures, together with technological, medical and pharmacological advances have reconfigured places used for health care in various ways. Primary Health Care: People, Practice, Place draws together significant contributions from established experts across a variety of disciplines to focus on such changes in primary health care, not only because it is the most basic and integral form of health service delivery, but also because it is an area to which...
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Economic, demographic, and social pressures, together with technological, medical and pharmacological advances have reconfigured places used for health care in various ways. Primary Health Care: People, Practice, Place draws together significant contributions from established experts across a variety of disciplines to focus on such changes in primary health care, not only because it is the most basic and integral form of health service delivery, but also because it is an area to which geographers have made significant contributions and to which other scholars have engaged in 'thinking geographically' about its core concepts and issues. Including perspectives from both consumers and producers, it moves beyond geographical accounts of the context of health service provision through its explicit focus on the practice of primary health care.With arguments well-supported by empirical research, this book will appeal not only to scholars of across a range of social sciences, but also to professionals involved in health services.