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A hands-on, how-to guide to community based medicine. Developed out of an extremely successful program at Montefiore Hospital in New York, Community Oriented Primary Care not only details how to set up a community based program--including its goals, resources, etc.--it also explores diagnostic and treatment techniques for health problems in the community; methods for assessing community needs to mobilize further resources; the relationship between cultural values and health care; health personnel for primary care; the organization of health services; health care financing, and career goals in urban practice. Also included are questionnaires, surveys, and a glossary.