Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

The primary care in crisis: current pressures and threats to primary care as we know it / Gordon T. Moore -- Primary care performance: views from the patient / Dana Gelb Safran -- The internet, complementary and alternative medicine and self-care / Bernard Lo -- Deconstructing primary care / Barbara Starfield -- Nontraditional approaches to primary care delivery / Helen Burstin, Carolyn Clancy -- The specialist as primary care provider / Harry R. Kimball -- Advanced practice nurses: the preferred primary care providers for the twenty-first century / Mary O'Neil Mundinger --;Is primary care worthy of physicians? an ecological perspective / Larry A. Green -- Primary care in a new era: disillusion and dissolution? / Lewis Sandy, Steven Schroeder -- Chronic illness management in primary care / Arlyss Anderson Rothman, Edward H. Wagner -- Reconstructing primary care of the elderly / Eric B. Larson -- Palliative care and primary care: opportunities for cooperation and improvement / Christine Cassel, Beth Demel -- Alcohol, drug and mental disorders, psychosocial problems and behavioral interventions in primary care / Harold A. Pincus -- Primary care for children and adolescents / Michael Weitzman, Jonathan D. Klein, Tina L. Cheng -- Primary care: the next renaissance / Jonathan Showstack ... [et al.].