ABSTRACT
This practical ‘How To’ guide talks the reader step-by-step through designing, conducting and disseminating primary care research, a growing discipline internationally. The vast majority of health care issues are experienced by people in community settings, who are not adequately represented by hospital-based research. There is therefore a great need to upskill family physicians and other primary care workers and academics to conduct community-based research to inform best practice. Aimed at emerging researchers, including those in developing countries, this book also addresses cutting edge and newly developing research methods, which will be of equal interest to more experienced researchers.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
section I|27 pages
Introduction
section II|82 pages
Innovative approaches to primary care research
section III|36 pages
Preliminary steps to doing primary care research
section IV|108 pages
Methods and techniques for doing primary care research
section V|27 pages
How to disseminate your research
section VI|34 pages
Building research capacity