scholarly journals New land, new town, new health care system : primary care based health care planning in a modern, industrialized society : a case-study evaluating the health care demonstration project in the new Dutch town of Almere

1997 ◽  
Author(s):  
H.J. Sixma
2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. C. Delaney ◽  
K. A. Peterson ◽  
S. Speedie ◽  
A. Taweel ◽  
T. N. Arvanitis ◽  
...  

2003 ◽  
Vol 3 (6) ◽  
pp. 324-328 ◽  
Author(s):  
John F. Steiner ◽  
Patricia A. Braun ◽  
Paul Melinkovich ◽  
Judith E. Glazner ◽  
Vijayalaxmi Chandramouli ◽  
...  

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1977 ◽  
Vol 60 (4) ◽  
pp. 544-546
Author(s):  
BARBARA STARFIELD

Self-help is in vogue. Stimulated at least partly by the purported inadequacies of our health care system, it promises better results if only people would take responsibility for their own destinies. The Lewises and their colleagues (p. 499), in their customary fashion, have added an innovative twist to the idea. Why not start the process in childhood? In their article they describe a demonstration project in which children enrolled in an elementary school could initiate their own care from a school nurse. The nurse was trained to involve the children in the decisions required to cope with their problems. If


PEDIATRICS ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 95 (2) ◽  
pp. 270-272
Author(s):  
Evan Charney

In a 1973 monograph on the education of physicians for primary care, Joel Alpert and I wrote, "There are two interrelated and serious problems in our present educational structure—not enough physicians enter primary care and those who do so are not adequately prepared for the job."1 Twenty years and many task forces and exhortatory editorials later, much the same could be said. But that conclusion would not be entirely fair: changes have indeed occurred in the subsequent two score years. There is now clear consensus that a strong primary care system should be the linchpin of our nation's health care system, with 50 to 60% of physicians as generalists, 2,3 and the medical profession has at least professed to agree with that strategy.4


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