Anmerkungen:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:
Crumbling foundation of U.S. health care -- The silent decline of primary care: toward headless and heartless care -- Dimensions and system impacts of today's primary care crisis -- Upside-down health care: impacts on patients and their families -- What other advanced countries know: what is primary care and why do we need it? -- Generalism vs. specialism: myths and misconceptions about primary care -- The inexorable decline in primary care -- Attempts to rebuild primary care -- Lessons from failed attempts to rebuild primary care -- Rebuilding and transforming primary care -- Is there a (happy) doctor in the house? : Policy alternatives for the physician workforce -- Lessons from other countries -- Progress towards new models of primary care -- An agenda for rebuilding and transforming primary care -- The coming burst of the health care bubble