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First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
Includes subject section, name section, and 1968-1970, technical reports.
What are public health services? Countries across Europe understand what they are or what they should include differently. This study describes the experiences of nine countries detailing the ways they have opted to organize and finance public health services and train and employ their public health workforce. It covers England France Germany Italy the Netherlands Slovenia Sweden Poland and the Republic of Moldova and aims to give insights into current practice that will support decision-makers in their efforts to strengthen public health capacities and services. Each country chapter captures the historical background of public health services and the context in which they operate; sets out ...
For many citizens primary health care is the first point of contact with their health care system, where most of their health needs are satisfied but also acting as the gate to the rest of the system. In that respect primary care plays a crucial role in how patients value health systems as responsive to their needs and expectations. This volume analyses the way how primary are is organized and delivered across European countries, looking at governance, financing and workforce aspects and the breadth of the service profiles. It describes wide national variations in terms of accessibility, continuity and coordination. Relating these differences to health system outcomes the authors suggest some priority areas for reducing the gap between the ideal and current realities.
Policy issues, and option for congressional action -- Introduction -- Demographic of infertility -- factors contributing to infertility -- Prevention of Infertility -- Diagnosis of Infertility -- Treatment of Infertility -- Infertility services and cost -- Quality assurance for research and clinical care -- Reproductive health of veterans -- Ethical onsiderations -- Constitutional considerations -- Legal considerations: artificial insemination, in vitro fertilization embryo transfer, and gamete intrafallopian transfer -- Legal consideration: surrogate motherhood -- Frontiers of reproductive technology.
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