Editors:
- An up-to-date comprehensive and interdisciplinary book on contemporary primary health care that will appeal to both researchers and practitioners
- Collates medical views with non-health professional contributions from law, public policy, housing management, data science, information technology and mass communications
- An essential tool for professionals in executive, planning and developmental positions, as well as professionals in training in primary care
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Table of contents (23 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Principles of Primary Care and Systems
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Front Matter
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About this book
Keywords
- Primary care medicine
- Health promotion and disease prevention
- Community health practice
- Integrated care
- Ageing population
- Social responsibility
- Environment and housing
- Primary care in the context of environment and housing
- Social marketing
- Non-government organisations
- Sustainable Health Care Systems
- The role of the mass media in primary care
- Public private partnership in primary care
- Palliative care
- Elderly care
- Non-government organisations and volunteers
- Emergency services and preparedness for disasters
- Health care policy
Reviews
“The primary audience is medical practitioners in Hong Kong … . This book brings additional perspective to the worldwide discussion of how to deliver health care to populations by focusing on a region not commonly considered in current discussions.” (Vincent F Carr, Doody's Book Reviews, November 13, 2020)
Editors and Affiliations
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The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China
Ben Yuk Fai Fong, Vincent Tin Sing Law
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The Chinese University of Hong Kong, New Territories, Hong Kong, China
Albert Lee
About the editors
Dr Vincent Law is a senior lecturer in the School of Professional Education and Executive Development at Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He teaches social sciences, applied sciences, and management subjects, and is an experienced researcher in social sciences and public policy. In recent years, he has participated in some large-scale consultancies and research projects for both the government and private organisations. He has authored several academic journal papers and three books on Chinese wisdom and its contemporary application (in Chinese).
Professor Albert Lee, MD, LLM with distinction (Arbitration and DR), is the Founding Director of the Centre for Health Education and Health Promotion, and Associate Dean of General Education of Wu Yee Sun College at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) US, an Honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health, UK, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and Vice President of the UNESCO-HK Association. He has served as a WHO Advisor/Consultant since 2003 and has contributed models of care for school health which are applicable internationally.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Primary Care Revisited
Book Subtitle: Interdisciplinary Perspectives for a New Era
Editors: Ben Yuk Fai Fong, Vincent Tin Sing Law, Albert Lee
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-2521-6
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-2520-9Published: 04 June 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-2523-0Published: 04 June 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-2521-6Published: 03 June 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVII, 393
Number of Illustrations: 34 b/w illustrations
Topics: Primary Care Medicine, Social Care, Health Care Management, Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Aging