ABSTRACT
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
section 1|33 pages
What is primary care research?
section 2|64 pages
The contribution of primary care research to health and health systems
section 3|32 pages
Commissioning of primary care research
section 4|113 pages
Primary care research organisations
part |8 pages
Cross-nation organisations
part |15 pages
Primary care research networks
section 5|5 pages
National perspectives on primary care research
part |15 pages
Europe Region
part |7 pages
Eastern Mediterranean Region
part |6 pages
South Asia Region
part |11 pages
Asia Pacific Region
part |12 pages
Africa Region
part |7 pages
North America Region
part |9 pages
Iberoamericana-CIMF * Region