Primary Health Care

Primary Health Care: People, Practice, Place draws together significant contributions from established experts across a variety of disciplines to focus on changes in practices, technologies, and the changing nature of societies and populations. With arguments well-supported by empirical research, this book will appeal not only to scholars across a range of social and health sciences, but also to professionals involved in health services.

Valorie A. Crooks is Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at Simon Fraser University, Canada. Gavin J. Andrews is Professor and Chair of the Department of Health, Aging and Society, McMaster University, Canada.

1: Thinking Geographically About Primary Health Care; 2: Geographical Perspectives on Health Care; 1: Practice and Delivery; 3: Access and Utilization Reconsidered; 4: The Effects of Population Density, Physical Distance and Socio-Economic Vulnerability on Access to Primary Health Care in Rural and Remote British Columbia, Canada; 5: The Role of Scale in Conceptualizing Primary Health Care Practice; 6: Cloaked Selective Primary Health Care? Local Observations of Rural Primary Health Care Clinics in Perú; 2: People; 7: Geographies of Family Medicine; 8: The Place of Nursing in Primary Health Care; 9: Reinventing Primary Care; 10: New Health Geographies of Complementary, Alternative and Traditional Medicines in Primary Health Care; 3: Places and Settings; 11: Considering the Clinic Environment; 12: Within and Beyond Clinics; 13: Providers of Care in the Home; 14: On the Street; 4: Agenda Setting; 15: The Geographies of Primary Health Care