Primary Health Care: Public Involvement, Family Medicine, Epidemiology, and Health Economics (Health Systems Research)

A health policy for the future is the topic of discussion in this book. International scientists discuss central questions corresponding to the targets set by the World Health Organization (WHO). In a unique meeting, social political proposals and recommendations are presented for a regional health care system that includes public involvement. Separate sections of the book treat the primary health care system in relation to public involvement, family medicine, epidemiology, health economics, and institutional requirements. Front Matter....Pages I-XIII Introduction....Pages 1-6 Front Matter....Pages 7-7 Principles and Aims of a Future Health Policy....Pages 9-14 Health for All by the Year 2000: Economic Aspects of a European Health Policy for the 1980s and 1990s....Pages 15-22 Conditions of Regional Health Care in Research and Practice....Pages 23-29 The “Primary Health Care for the Citizens of a Region” Associations Forum: A First Report....Pages 30-42 Front Matter....Pages 43-43 The Use of Clinical Judgment to Evaluate the Therapeutic Efficacy of Critical Care Units....Pages 45-55 Education and Research in Family Medicine....Pages 56-64 Towards Family Sensitive Health Care....Pages 65-76 Analysis of the Scope of Action in General Medicine and Its Empirical Control....Pages 77-88 Organization and Research Program of the Netherlands Institute of Primary Health Care....Pages 89-100 Health Center: Integrated Primary Health Care Resources and Services Within the District and Coordinative Role of General Practice....Pages 101-118 Front Matter....Pages 119-119 Health Promotion of Chronically Ill Heart Patients....Pages 121-135 Regional Variation in the Supply of Medical Care and in “Avoidable Mortality” Within Countries of the European Community....Pages 136-143 Teaching Clinical Epidemiology in a School of Medicine: Opportunities and Challenges....Pages 144-151 Results From a Hypertension Care Program in One of the Swedish Counties....Pages 152-161 Front Matter....Pages 163-163 Performance Review in British Primary Health Care: An Epidemiological and Economic Evaluation....Pages 165-179 Primary Medical Care Financing and Physician Payment Systems: A European Perspective....Pages 181-199 Health Economics Aspects of Multimorbidity in Outpatient Medical Care....Pages 201-222 Medical Care and Social Security....Pages 223-231 Costs and Effectiveness of Alternative Approaches to the Care of the Mentally Handicapped: Illustrations with Irish Data....Pages 232-238 Front Matter....Pages 163-163 Reducing the Social Costs of Alcohol Abuse — Selecting Targets for Intersector Planning and Action....Pages 239-249 Front Matter....Pages 251-251 Institutionalizing Primary Health Care at the Level of Undergraduate Education — Didactic and Structural Considerations....Pages 253-262 Institutional Requirements for a Regional Comprehensive Health Care System: A Panel Discussion....Pages 263-270