Primary Health Care: People, Practice, Place

Valorie A. Crooks is Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at Simon Fraser University, Canada. Gavin J. Andrews is Professor and Chair of the Department of Health, Aging and Society, McMaster University, Canada.

• 1: Thinking Geographically About Primary Health Care; 2: Geographical Perspectives on Health Care; 1: Practice and Delivery; 3: Access and Utilization Reconsidered; 4: The Effects of Population Density, Physical Distance and Socio-Economic Vulnerability on Access to Primary Health Care in Rural and Remote British Columbia, Canada; 5: The Role of Scale in Conceptualizing Primary Health Care Practice; 6: Cloaked Selective Primary Health Care? Local Observations of Rural Primary Health Care Clinics in Perú; 2: People; 7: Geographies of Family Medicine; 8: The Place of Nursing in Primary Health Care; 9: Reinventing Primary Care; 10: New Health Geographies of Complementary, Alternative and Traditional Medicines in Primary Health Care; 3: Places and Settings; 11: Considering the Clinic Environment; 12: Within and Beyond Clinics; 13: Providers of Care in the Home; 14: On the Street; 4: Agenda Setting; 15: The Geographies of Primary Health Care

'Anyone interested in how a geographical imagination informs our understanding of the delivery of primary care in the developed world will benefit from this collection. Authors from Canada, New Zealand and Britain draw on a rich set of examples to illustrate the intersections of primary care, the people accessing such care, and the settings in which such care is delivered.' Tony Gatrell, Lancaster University, UK 'This book has an international public health flavour and helps to generate discussion and debate by demonstrating the connection between the structure and geographical perspectives of primary health care, the people served and the settings where it is delivered.' Nursing Standard '...this is an excellent introduction to the geography of primary health care and many people should buy, beg or borrow a copy. It is a "good read" for the novice geographer, interested clinician, thoughtful policy maker or health manager who will skim at low level across the health landscapes. There are also those whose professional or academic practice demands that they have an in depth knowledge of a variety of different contexts regarding the health geography of primary care. For them it is a required text.' Health Sociology Review 'This book will be a useful text for public health practitioners, academics and researchers. It is comprehensive and analytical, presenting a synthesis of complex issues with examples of research undertaken in practice. It illuminates the field of primary healthcare theory and practice within the context of the geographies of health in an exemplary way.' Perspectives in Public Health