Future of Primary Care

Jonathan Showstack is professor of medicine and health policy in the Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, and the Institute for Health Policy Studies, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco. Arlyss Anderson Rothman is assistant professor in the School of Nursing, Department of Family Health Care Nursing, and researcher in the Institute for Health Policy Studies at the University of California, San Francisco.Susan B. Hassmiller is a senior program officer at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

"Overall the book is an excellent reference for those interested in primary care practice." (The Journal of Pharmacy Technology; 1/1/2005)

• Preface ixThe Authors xiiiPart One: Primary Care at a Crossroads 11 Primary Care in Crisis: Current Pressures and Threats to Primary Care as We Know It 3Gordon T.Moore2 Primary Care Performance: Views from the Patient 17Dana Gelb Safran3 The Internet, Complementary and Alternative Medicine, and Self-Care 40Bernard LoPart Two: The Components of Primary Care: Processes and Providers 594 Deconstructing Primary Care 61Barbara Starfield5 Nontraditional Approaches to Primary Care Delivery 89Helen Burstin, Carolyn Clancy6 The Specialist as Primary Care Provider 109Harry R. Kimball7 Advanced Practice Nurses: The Preferred Primary Care Providers for the Twenty-First Century 120Mary O’Neil MundingerPart Three: Reconstructing Primary Care for Patients and Populations 1418 Is Primary Care Worthy of Physicians? An Ecological Perspective 143Larry A. Green9 Primary Care in a New Era: Disillusion and Dissolution? 161Lewis Sandy, Steven Schroeder10 Chronic Illness Management in Primary Care 180Arlyss Anderson Rothman, Edward H.Wagner11 Reconstructing Primary Care of the Elderly 203Eric B. Larson12 Palliative Care and Primary Care: Opportunities for Cooperation and Improvement 223Christine Cassel, Beth Demel13 Alcohol, Drug, and Mental Disorders, Psychosocial Problems, and Behavioral Interventions in Primary Care 243Harold A. Pincus14 Primary Care for Children and Adolescents 276Michael Weitzman, Jonathan D. Klein, Tina L. ChengPart Four: Recommendations for the Future 29915 Primary Care: The Next Renaissance 301Jonathan Showstack, Nicole Lurie, Eric B. Larson, Arlyss Anderson Rothman, Susan B. HassmillerName Index 313Subject Index 320