• Takes students through the process of training to work in the health care, to meeting a patient, and contributing to that person’s care
• Takes students through the whole process of training to work in health care, adopting a profession, becoming a team member in a health care setting, beginning to see clients and work with clients as their treatment progresses.
This title is suitable for undergraduate students at second and third year level but can be used as early as 1st year at all medical schools, nursing colleges and health departments.
Table of Contents Ethics as a Process of Refl ection • Caring as professionals • Caring as service provision • Enter the patient
• The
client and career relationship • At the beginning of life • When the Patient is Young and Developing • Mid-life and healthcare challenges • Declining phases of life and end of life challenges • Caring in an institutional and social context • Monitoring and education • And So to research
Primary Health Care in southern Africa: A Comprehensive Approach 4e Authors: K Dennill, K Rendall-Mkosi and Teurai Rwafa-Ponela
Primary Health Care in southern Africa: A Comprehensive Approach 4e off ers an inclusive, accessible and applied introduction to the fundamental concepts, principles and components of comprehensive Primary Health Care (PHC). It sets out the universally accepted approach to health care that promotes community centred health care that is holistic, equitable, assessable and integrated. The book discusses the development and implementation of the approach as it has progressed over the last 40 years since it was introduced by the WHO at Alma Ata in 1978. The South African Health System, which is based on comprehensive PHC, is examined, and a short comparative review of some country’s health systems in the southern African region is provided. This book off ers valuable guidance to health policy developers and health care managers tasked with the development of an operational framework or plan to implement health policy at district level.
PAPERBACK OCT 2021 OUP SA
288 PAGES 9780190758752 9780190740177
“Primary Health Care in southern Africa is an up-to-date, comprehensive and well written textbook. The book has a fresh and new approach about current issues in PHC in South Africa. The fact that the re-engineering of PHC in South Africa (2010) is well covered and discussed in context of the programme globally is a huge benefi t to our students and lecturers. The topics covered are relevant to nursing curricula over a wide spectrum of programmes off ered. The textbook can assist undergraduate and postgraduate students in applying theory into practice. ”
Ms D Kitshoff , Head of Speciality: Health Assessment, Treatment and Core (Primary Health Care), Stellenbosch University
Table of Contents Chapter 1: The development of primary health care as a global approach to health • Chapter 2: Primary health care in southern Africa • Chapter 3: Resources needed to implement primary health care programmes • Chapter 4: Community participation in health • Chapter 5: Health promotion: scope and practice • Chapter 6: Communication in primary health care • Chapter 7: The transformation of the health system in South Africa
Primary Health Care in southern Africa: A Comprehensive Approach is an essential text for students of all health science disciplines. It is also a primary reference for health professionals engaged in post basic studies in public health, such as the Master in Public Health, and for professional nurses, doctors, health promoters, environmental health practitioners and allied health professionals.
New to this edition: The fourth edition discusses the Astana Declaration, a product of the meeting of world leaders held at Astana in 2018, which aimed to refocus the world’s health systems on PHC. The text examines the Astana Declaration and discusses its signifi cance for the attainment of Universal Health Coverage and the Sustainable Development Goals. Implementation strategies, as they relate to the renewed emphasis on PHC, and the attainment of universal health care services at district level , are deliberated.
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