Primary Care Centres explores the process of planning and designing buildings for frontline medical practice. Taking as a starting point the concept that good design contributes directly to healthy living, the book shows beneficial effects that a good design brief can bring to the staff, patients and visitors of health care facilities. It outlines principles for designs that are both practical and useful. International case studies of healthcare facilities in the UK, US, Japan and South Africa provide technical detail and give best practice examples of well-designed healthy living centres, with an emphasis on building performance and catering for the latest government policy developments. This new edition provides trusted guidance on investing in effective architecture for architects and project managers involved in the design of healthcare facilities. Dr Geoffrey Purves is Chairman of Purves Ash LLP, a firm of Architects in Newcastle upon Tyne. He has held a range of professional appointments with the Royal Institute of British Architects and is an Honorary Research Associate at Durham University.

Primary Health Care: People, Practice, Place draws together significant contributions from established experts across a variety of disciplines to focus on changes in practices, technologies, and the changing nature of societies and populations. With arguments well-supported by empirical research, this book will appeal not only to scholars across a range of social and health sciences, but also to professionals involved in health services.

This book presents examples from various countries about the provision of health services at the primary care level. Chapters examine the role of professionals in primary healthcare services and how they can work to improve the health of individuals and communities. Written by authors from Africa, Asia, America, Europe, and Australia, this book provides up-to-date information on primary health care, including telehealth services in the era of COVID-19.

Primary health care centres sets out the principles for good design and focuses on primary health care buildings, taking examples from the United Kingdom, Japan, United States, Denmark and Finland. Martin Valins discusses current trends and future directions and concludes with design and economic factors which will shape future generations of architecture for primary health care.

This book discusses the concept, strategies and implementation of Primary Health Care in various settings, in a simple and lucid way. The basic services required to provide primary health care in disease conditions, common health problems encountered in the community and their management, services for managing emergency conditions, first aid and resuscitation, have been thoroughly explained. Manifestation and management of communicable and non-communicable diseases along with the objectives and components of the various National Programmes for prevention and control of these conditions, as well as programmes delivering services for special groups of population, have been discussed in detail. This book will be of tremendous help for understanding and delivering Primary Health Care by trainees of all categories of health sciences, professionals concerned with delivering community health services for Primary Health Care, in addition to the Medical Officers in charge of Primary Health Centres and Dispensaries, the Family Physicians, Public Health professionals and teachers of Community Medicine.

Primary Care Centres explores the process of planning and designing buildings for frontline medical practice. Taking as a starting point the concept that good design contributes directly to healthy living, the book shows beneficial effects that a good design brief can bring to the staff, patients and visitors of health care facilities. It outlines principles for designs that are both practical and useful. International case studies of healthcare facilities in the UK, US, Japan and South Africa provide technical detail and give best practice examples of well-designed healthy living centres, with an emphasis on building performance and catering for the latest government policy developments. This new edition provides trusted guidance on investing in effective architecture for architects and project managers involved in the design of healthcare facilities. Dr Geoffrey Purves is Chairman of Purves Ash LLP, a firm of Architects in Newcastle upon Tyne. He has held a range of professional appointments with the Royal Institute of British Architects and is an Honorary Research Associate at Durham University.

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By exploring the design process this book looks at the relationship between the architectural and medical professions to see how the next wave of Government health policies can be best provided for. The aim is to raise the quality of health buildings in the primary care sector. Greater flexibility will be required as the medical profession moves towards a pro-active attitude to Healthy Living Centres rather than the traditional reactive treatment to cure disease. This is a hands-on 'how to do it' guide to satisfy changing policy objectives, offering an up to date methodology to encourage a holistic approach to health care buildings which will be of interest to both architectural and medical professionals. * Gain comprehensive technical coverage of primary health care planning & design * Learn about the approach taken by designers through international examples and illustrations and inspire your own designs * Explore the relationship between the architectural and medical professions and learn how best to provide for both the designer and the client