Anticipatory care in very deprived areas

Anticipatory care in very deprived areas.

Series and diabetes. The cardinal feature of his practice was an unconditional approach to all of the problems presented by his patients, providing continuity and coordination, and using epidemiology to measure what he had and hadn't done. The epidemiology was new, but the interventions were mainstream. As part of the Deep End Project, 20 GPs from Glasgow, Edinburgh and Inverclyde met to review...

Patient encounters in very deprived areas.

Series difficulties in moving beyond reactive patterns of patient and practitioner behaviour. The incentives of the Quality and Outcomes Framework do not reward practitioners for extending consultations beyond a narrow range of targets and the QOF agenda, highlighted via computer alerts, can be felt as an intrusion in the consultation. Current NHS initiatives concerning patient self-help and se...

Social prescribing in very deprived areas.

Deprived areas: deprived of training?

Health inequalities are a UK-wide health priority, but previous studies prior to expansion in GP training showed a deficit in training numbers in deprived areas. This study set out to examine whether this is still the case, using 2009 training practice data and the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation. Training practices were found to be significantly less deprived and significantly larger wh...

Expanding the health care in deprived areas in Iran:policies and challenges

Health is the axis of the social, economic, political and cultural development of all human societies and has particular importance in the development of the infrastructure of different sections of society. The final goal of any country's health care system is to improve the health of its people. Equal access to health services and equitable distribution of health resources is one of the main g...