Family Practice in the Eastern Mediterranean Region

Primary Health Care for Universal Health Coverage
Herausgeber: Salah, Hassan; Kidd, Michael

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This joint publication from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Organization of Family Doctors (WONCA) provides a concise analysis of the state of family practice in the 22 countries spread over North Africa, the Middle East and Western Asia, i.e. the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR) in both English and Arabic.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 162
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 174mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 281g
• ISBN-13: 9780367272616
• ISBN-10: 036727261X
• Artikelnr.: 57004963

Autorenporträt

Hassan Salah is Primary Health Care Regional Advisor, and Integrated Service Delivery Team Lead, Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office, World Health Organization. Salah is a medical doctor, with a Master's Degree from Harvard School of Public Health. Michael Kidd is an Australian family doctor and medical researcher. He served as WONCA President from 2013-2016. He is Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre on Family Medicine and Primary Care, and Professor and Chair of the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto in Canada. He also has academic appointments with the Murdoch Children's Research Institute in Melbourne, and as Honorary Professor of Global Primary Care at Flinders University in Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

The global movement towards integrated people-centred health services: The
role of family practice. Scaling up family practice: Progressing towards
universal health coverage in the Eastern Mediterranean Region. Universal
health coverage: Challenges and opportunities for the education of the
health workforce. Proactive primary care: Integrating public health into
primary care. Health information in primary care and family practice:
Concept, status, and a vision for the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR).
Integration of non-communicable diseases in primary health care in the WHO
Eastern Mediterranean Region. Family practice workforce: Multidisciplinary
teams. Current status of family medicine education and training in the
Eastern Mediterranean Region. Leveraging technology to transition general
practitioners to the family practice model of care. Measuring the quality
of primary health care: A regional initiative in the Eastern Mediterranean
Region. The challenge of providing primary health-care services in crisis
countries in the Eastern Mediterranean Region. Public-private partnerships:
The Mazandaran experience on contracting with private family physicians,
Islamic Republic of Iran. Afghanistan. Bahrain. Djibouti. Egypt. Islamic
Republic of Iran. Iraq. Jordan. Kuwait. Lebanon. Libya. Morocco. Oman.
Pakistan. Palestine. Qatar. Saudi Arabia. Somalia. Sudan. Syria. Tunisia.
United Arab Emirates. Yemen.