1st Edition

International Perspectives on Primary Care Research

Edited By Felicity Goodyear-Smith, Bob Mash Copyright 2016
    271 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
    by CRC Press

    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.

    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

    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

    "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