Community-oriented Primary Care: From Principle to Practice

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Paul A. Nutting
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Health Resources and Services Administration, Office of Primary Care Studies, 1987 - Community health services - 539 pages

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Page vii - University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, New Jersey...
Page 521 - Va. 22102; (703) 821-8955, provides information services to support the planning, development, and delivery of ambulatory health care to urban and rural areas where there are shortages of medical personnel and services.
Page 286 - ... a specific set of linkages among a defined set of persons, with the additional property that the characteristics of these linkages as a whole may be used to interpret the social behavior of the persons involved.
Page 387 - Health is not a commodity that is given. It must be generated from within. Similarly, health action cannot and should not be an effort imposed from outside and foreign to the people; rather it must be a response of the community to the problems that the people in the community perceive, carried out in a way that is acceptable to them and properly supported by an adequate infrastructure.
Page 2 - Similarly, the nature of the water supply must be considered; is it marshy and soft, hard as it is when it flows from high and rocky ground, or salty with a hardness which is permanent ? Then think of the soil, whether it be bare and waterless or thickly covered with vegetation and well-watered; whether in a hollow and stifling, or exposed and cold. Lastly consider the life of the inhabitants themselves; are they heavy drinkers and eaters and consequently unable to stand fatigue or, being fond of...
Page 2 - ... must study the warm and the cold winds, both those which are common to every country and those peculiar to a particular locality. Lastly, the effect of water on the health must not be forgotten.
Page 520 - Ante, p. 149 thereof the following new paragraph : "(97) Members, Consumer Product Safety Commission (4)." PRODUCT SAFETY INFORMATION AND RESEARCH SEC. 5. (a) The Commission shall— (1) maintain an Injury Information Clearinghouse to collect, investigate, analyze, and disseminate injury data, and information, relating to the causes and prevention of death, injury, and illness associated with consumer products...
Page 403 - Community participation is the process by which individuals and families assume responsibility for their own health and welfare and COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION (cont'd) for those of the community, and develop the capacity to contribute to their own and the community's development.
Page 200 - Derogatis LR, Lipman RS, Rickels K, et al: The Hopkins Symptom Checklist (HSCL): a self-report symptom inventory.
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