Primary Healthcare: People, Practice, Place

Abstract

Contents: Thinking geographically about primary health care, Valorie A. Crookes and Gavin J. Andrews Geographical perspectives on health care: ideas, disciplines, progress, Gavin J. Andrews and Valorie A. Crookes Part 1 Practice and Delivery: Access and utilization reconsidered: towards a broader understanding of the spatial ordering of primary health care, Neil Hanlon The effects of population density, physical distance and socio-economic vulnerability on access to primary health care in rural and remote British Columbia, Canada, Nadine Schuurman The role of scale in conceptualizing primary health care practice: considering social and institutional structures and systems, Janine L. Wiles and Mark W. Rosenberg Cloaked selective primary health care? Local observations of rural primary health care clinics in PerA * , Leah Gold. Part 2 People: Geographies of family medicine: describing the family doctor's practice-based landscape of care, Gina Agarwal The place of nursing in primary health care, Jennifer Lapum Sandra Chen, Jessica Peterson, Doris Leung and Gavin J. Andrews Reinventing primary care: the New Zealand case compared, Ross Barnett and Pauline Barnett New health geographies of complementary, alternative and traditional medicines in primary health care, Daniel Hollenberg and Ivy Bourgeault. Part 3 Places and Settings: Considering the clinical environment: implications for practice and primary health care, Valorie A. Crookes and Gina Agarwal Within and beyond clinics: primary health care and community participation, Robin Kearns and Pat Neuwelt Providers of care in the home: sustainable partners in primary health care?, Nicole M. Yantzi and Mark W. Skinner On the street: primary health care for difficult to reach populations, David Conradson and Graham Moon. Part 4 Agenda Setting: The geographies of primary health care: a summary and agenda, Valorie A. Crookes and Gavin J. Andrews Index.