Description: I. Primary Care and Health 1. Primary Care and its Relationship to Health 2. A Framework for Measuring Primary Care 3. Morbidity in Primary Care II. Primary Care Practice 4. Describing Primary Care 5. Primary Care, Subspecialists, and Non-Physician Practitioners 6. Primary Care in the Context of Health Systems III. Acountability in Primary Care 7. Accessability and First-contact Use: The Gate 8. Patient Person-Focused Care Over Time 9. Practitioner-Patient Interactions 10. Comprehensiveness of Care: Who Should Provide What 11. Coordination of Care: Putting it All Together IV. Patients and Populations 12. Quality of Primary Care: A Clinical View 13. Evaluation of Primary Care: A Population View 14. Public health and Community- Oriented Primary Care V. Health Policy and Primary Care 15. Primary Care Systems in Western Industrialized Nations 16. Information Systems for Primary Care 17. Primary Care Research Needs 18. Health Policies to Achieve Effectiveness and Equity Acknowledgements Epilogue Appendix: Primary Care Assessment Tool

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