Family Health Care [Paperback]

More effective prevention, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation will be the outcome of including the family unit in the delivery of primary care, as opposed to primary care aimed solely at individuals. This is the proposal explored by this volume's interdisciplinary contributors, who discuss theory, practice, education and research methodology related to primary care.More effective prevention, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation will be the outcome of including the family unit in the delivery of primary care, as opposed to primary care aimed solely at individuals. This is the proposal explored by this volume's interdisciplinary contributors, who discuss theory, practice, education and research methodology related to primary care.Paradigm Shift - Russell J Sawa
Toward a New Vision of Family Medicine
Recent Changes in Family Life and New Challenges in Primary Care - Edward Shorter
Family Systems Theory and Medical Illness - Peter Steinglass
Linkages Between Family Theories and Primary Health Care - William J Doherty
Family Theory in Family Medicine - Ian R McWhinney and Joan Patterson
Research on Family Health Care - Maurine H Venters
A Methodological Overview
An Ethnographic Approach to Family Research in Primary Care - Howard F Stein
New Directions in the Methodology of Family-Oriented Health Care Research - Donald C Ransom
Comments on Methods - Walter W Rosser
The Family in Primary Care
Different Portraits of Medical Practice - Diana McLain Smith
Model Conflict in Training Physicians to `Think Family'
Exemplars of Family-Oriented Care - How Do We Know What They Do? - John C Rogers
Three Ways of Thinking - Russell J Sawa
Family Medicine - Macaran A Baird
A Time for Clarity
Issues in the Adoption of a Family Approach by Practicing Family Physicians - lcé