Physicians in Health Centers

The British are coming: Some observations on health care teams in Great Britain*

“…By contrast, in the United States, the early health team movement frequently was associated with organizational models and/or educational programs and institutions (Andrus, 1975;Baldwin, M.A., 1976;Beckhard, 1972;Beloff & Korper, 1972;Mazur et al, 1979;Parker, 1972;Wise, 1970). Even the Martin Luther King Health Center was conceived in part as a model training center and almost immediately sought out the interventions of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) group (Beckhard, 1972;Rubin & Beckhard, 1972).…”

“…This health-oriented clinical teaching program included pediatricians, psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses, social workers, dentists, dental hygienists and medical technologists, together with assigned students from each of these fields, all of whom functioned together in a very contemporary fashion (Deisher, 1953). From these beginnings, the account moves almost immediately to the community health center movement in the mid-60's (Parker, 1972), and to the experience of Harold Wise at the Martin Luther King Health Center (Wise, 1970(Wise, , 1972.…”

“…He even suggests that the term may have outlived its usefulness in the evolving search for mutuality in interprofessional work. A second question poses the more fundamental issue of whether such arrangements constitute ''teamwork'' in the more idealized version or concept proposed by most American writers (Baldwin, D.C. Jr. & Baldwin, M.A., 1981;Parker, 1972;Wise, 1970). Are such associations truly ''teams'', especially when prescribed and largely supported by external bodies?…”

Integração dos serviços de saúde a nível periférico: experiência da comunidade da Amazônia, Brasil

“…O município possuia na ocasião 27.278 habitantes (IBGE, 1968), distribuí-dos em 13.682 km 2 (1,99 hab. km 2 ).…”