{"product_id":"primary-health-care-trisha-greenhalgh-9780727917850","title":"Primary Health Care: Theory and Practice","description":"\u003cb\u003eGeneral practitioners and other primary care professionals have a leading role in contemporary health care, which Trisha Greenhalgh explores in this highly praised new text. She provides perceptive and engaging insights into primary health care, focussing on: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eits intellectual roots\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eits impact on the individual, the family and the community\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ethe role of the multidisciplinary team\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003econtemporary topics such as homelessness, ethnic health and electronic records.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eConcise summaries, highlighted boxes, extensive referencing and a dedicated section on effective learning make this essential reading for postgraduate students, tutors and researchers in primary care.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Trish Greenhalgh, in her frequent columns in the British Medical Journal...more than any other medical journalist spoke to her fellow GPs in the language of experience, but never without linking this to our expanding knowledge from the whole of human science.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhen I compare the outlines of primary care so lucidly presented in this wonderful book, obviously derived from rich experience of real teaching and learning, with the grand guignol theatre of London medical schools when I was a student 1947-52, the advance is stunning.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--From the foreword by Julian Tudor Hart\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Trish Greenhalgh is one of the international stars of general practice and a very clever thinker. This new book is a wonderful resource for primary health care and general practice. Every general practice registrar should read this book and so should every general practice teacher and primary care researcher.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003eProfessor Michael Kidd, \u003c\/b\u003e Head of the Department of General Practice, University of Sydney and Immediate Past President of The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This important new book by one of primary care's most accomplished authors sets out clearly the academic basis for further developments in primary health care. Health systems will only function effectively if they recognise the importance of high quality primary care so I strongly recommend this book to students, teachers, researchers, practitioners and policy makers.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003eProfessor Martin Marshall, \u003c\/b\u003e Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health, UK\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Trisha Greenhalgh\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0727917854\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780727917850\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bmj Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eScitech Book News\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2007 pg. 77","brand":"Trisha Greenhalgh","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48013779271935,"sku":"9780727917850","price":148.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b5edec4e-d1c0-4751-84bb-1526a7ca1941.jpg?v=1767744716","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/primary-health-care-trisha-greenhalgh-9780727917850","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}