Community Oriented Primary Care: Training for Urban Practice

By Jo Ivey Boufford

A hands-on, how-to guide to community based medicine. Developed out of an extremely successful program at Montefiore Hospital in New York, Community Oriented Primary Care not only details how to set up a community based program--including its goals, resources, etc.--it also explores diagnostic and treatment techniques for health problems in the community; methods for assessing community needs to mobilize further resources; the relationship between cultural values and health care; health personnel for primary care; the organization of health services; health care financing, and career goals in urban practice. Also included are questionnaires, surveys, and a glossary.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275913074
• ISBN13: 9780275913076
• Release Date: December 1985
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 187 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.