International Perspectives on Primary Care Research
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Book Description
International Perspectives on Primary Care Research examines how the evidence base from primary care research can strengthen health care services and delivery, tackle the growing burden of disease, improve quality and safety, and increase a person-centred focus to health care.
Demonstrating the inter-professional nature of the discipline, the book also features a section on cross-nation organisations and primary care networks supporting research. National perspectives are offered from researchers in 20 countries that form part of the World Organization of Family Doctors, providing case histories from research-rich to resource-poor nations that illustrate the range of research development and capacity building.
This book argues the importance of primary care research, especially to policy makers, decision makers and funders in informing best practice, training primary health care providers and achieving equitable distribution of care.
Table of Contents
WHAT IS PRIMARY CARE RESEARCH?
Introduction
Felicity Goodyear-Smith
The History of Primary Care Research
Felicity Goodyear-Smith
The Nature of Primary Care Research
John Beasley, Andrew Bazemore and Bob Mash
Who Conducts Primary Care Research?
Bob Mash
Effective Patient Involvement in Research: Why, Who and How?
Amanda Howe
Primary Care Research in the Digital Age: Unleashing the Power of Electronic Patient Records
Jim Warren
References
THE CONTRIBUTION OF PRIMARY CARE RESEARCH TO HEALTH AND HEALTH SYSTEMS
Introduction
Bob Mash
Tackling the Burden of Disease with Primary Care Research
David Mant
How Primary Care Research Blends with Evidence-Based Medicine to Assist with Translation and Implementation of Evidence into Practice
Felicity Goodyear-Smith
How Primary Care Research Contributes to Improving the Quality and Safety of Healthcare
Carl de Wet
Making Healthcare More Person-Centred: How Primary Care Research Can Help Bring in the Human and Patient Perspective
Christos Lionis and Elena Petelos
The Contribution of Primary Care Research to Improving Health Services
Dee Mangin
Financing, Leadership, Governance and Primary Care Health Systems Research
Luisa M. Pettigrew
The Contribution of Primary Care Research to Education, Training and Development of the Primary Healthcare Workforce
Wim Peersman and Jan De Maeseneer
References
COMMISSIONING OF PRIMARY CARE RESEARCH
Introduction
Bob Mash
Primary Care Research: How to Put Local Priorities into a World Led by Global Funding
Leslie London
Primary Healthcare and International Development Assistance
Robert John Fryatt
Primary Care Research Funding in the UK
Clare J. Taylor and Richard Hobbs
Critique of Current Health Research Funding Models in Australia
Terry Findlay and Emma Broadbent
Research and Primary Healthcare – Health Systems Strengthening in Partner Countries from a European Perspective
Kevin McCarthy
References
PRIMARY CARE RESEARCH ORGANISATIONS
Introduction
Felicity Goodyear-Smith
Cross-Nation Organisations
North American Primary Care Research Group
William R. Phillips
Society for Academic Primary Care
Joanne Reeve
Primafamed
Jan De Maeseneer
Australasian Association of Academic Primary Care
Nick Zwar
Primary Care Research Networks
Introduction
Andrew Bazemore
Primary Care Practice-Based Research Networks
Rebecca A. Roper
International Federation of Primary Care Research Network
Christos Lionis
European General Practice Research Network
Mehmet Ungan
International Implementation Research Network in Primary Health Care
Chris Van Weel
Latin American Network for Research in Family Medicine
Jacqueline Ponzo, Thiago Trindade, Jose M Ramirez Aranda, Sandro Rodrigues Batista and Sergio Minué
References
NATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON PRIMARY CARE RESEARCH
Introduction
Bob Mash and Felicity Goodyear-Smith
Europe Region
Primary Care Research in the UK
Tony Kendrick
Primary Care Research in Denmark
Per Kallestrup
Primary Care Research in Spain
Sergio Minué
Primary Care Research in Turkey
Mehmet Akman
Eastern Mediterranean Region
Primary Care Research in Israel
Khaled Karkabi
Primary Care Research in the Kingdom of Bahrain
Faisal Abdullatif Alnasir
South Asia Region
Primary Care Research in India
Raman Kumar
Primary Care Research in Pakistan
Tabinda Ashfaq
Asia Pacific Region
Primary Care Research in China
William Wong
Primary Care Research in Malaysia
Sherina Mohd Sidik
Primary Care Research in Australia
Ellen McIntyre
Africa Region
Primary Care Research in South Africa
Gboyega Ogunbanjo and Bob Mash
Primary Care Research in Kenya
Patrick Chege
Primary Care Research in Ghana
Akye Essuman
Primary Care Research in Nigeria
Olayinka Ayankogbe
North America Region
Primary Care Research in Canada
Gillian Bartlett and Jeannie Haggerty
Primary Care Research in the USA
Larry A. Green
Iberoamericana-CIMF Region
Primary Care Research in Uruguay
Jacqueline Ponzo
Primary Care Research in Mexico
Jose M. Ramirez Aranda
Primary Care Research in Brazil
Magda Almeida, Gustavo Gusso and Thiago Trindade
References
Editor(s)
Biography
Edited by
Felicity Goodyear-Smith, MB CHB, MD, FRNZCGP, general practitioner and academic head, Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Prof. Bob Mash, MBChB, DRCOG, DCH, FRCGP (UK), FCFP (SA), PhD, head, Family Medicine and Primary Care, Stellenbosch University, Tygerberg, South Africa
Reviews
"This book takes a different approach to research, focusing that what research is valued in one region, specialty and subspecialty research, may not have the same value in another because different regions/nations have different primary care research needs. This is an extraordinarily important book for policy makers, philanthropists, nongovernmental organizations, and governments of all sizes." - Vincent F Carr, DO, MSA, FACC, FACP(Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences), Doody Enterprises