ewed as a means of promoting improved levels of general health in the country (Trotter & Danaher, 1994, pp. 39-47). Cited as evidence of the contention that the use of nurse practitioners leads to improvements in the level of health care, as an example, are infant mortality statistics that tend to decline as the role of nurse practitioner managed clinics increases (Richmond & Wise, 1986, pp. 219-223).
Moore (1990, pp. 22-26) said that if primary health care is to work health care professionals must remove the barriers that they have build between the health professions. The most significant task that must be accomplished in this context is the changing of the perceptions of individual members of the several healing professions. Health
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