1st Edition

Patient-Perspective Care A New Paradigm for Health Systems and Services

By Timothy A. Carey Copyright 2018
150 Pages
by Routledge

150 Pages
by Routledge

150 Pages
by Routledge

Inappropriate health care is an escalating and expensive problem. It affects high income, middle income, and low income countries and wastes billions of dollars annually as well as harming individuals and communities. Inappropriate care refers to both the overuse and underuse of tests and treatments and, ironically, can occur concurrently within the same health system. Even though patient-centred... Read more
Chapter 1. Our Global Health Crisis

Chapter 2. How Have We Arrived at this Position?

Chapter 3. Why Has the Concept of Patient-Centred Care Failed?

Chapter 4. The Importance of the Patient’s Perspective

Chapter 5. The Theoretical Underpinnings of Patient-Perspective Care

Chapter 6. What Patient-Perspective Care Means in Practice

Chapter 7. Patient-Led Appointment Scheduling: a practical example of patient-perspective care

Chapter 8. Patients’ Perspectives

Chapter 9. Where To From Here?

Biography

Timothy A. Carey is the director of Flinders University’s Centre for Remote Health. He is a clinician, teacher, and researcher who has developed the Method of Levels, an a-diagnostic, personalised psychotherapy which is described in the book Principles-Based Counselling and Psychotherapy: A Method of Levels Approach (Routledge 2015).