title: Linking primary health care and self-care through case management.
abstract: Primary health care (PHC) strategies have heightened health care providers' awareness of the need to understand their communities and provided knowledge on how to mobilize communities for health. Orem, a nurse theorist, has developed a similar philosophical position on mobilizing individuals for self-care, which complements PHC theory at the community level. This article links the philosophies and strategies of PHC with self-are and proposes a delivery model of case management, drawing on examples from the HIV/AIDS pandemic and the aging population to illustrate the type of coordinating activities required of case managers in the 21st century.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, University of California, San Francisco.
authors.forename: W L
authors.initials: WL
authors.lastname: Holzemer
mesh_terms: D000375:Aging; D005544:Forecasting; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000453:epidemiology; D015497:HIV-1; D005102:Health Expenditures; D006299:Health Services for the Aged / Q000191:economics; D006801:Humans; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D013677:Medical Laboratory Science; D009742:Nursing Theory; D010347:Patient Care Planning / Q000639:trends*; D010686:Philosophy, Medical; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000639:trends; D012648:Self Care / Q000592:standards*