Series: WONCA Family Medicine

This practical How To guide takes the reader step-by-step through designing, conducting, and disseminating primary care research, a discipline that is growing 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...

This guidebook systematically analyses the contribution of family medicine to high-quality primary health care in addressing the challenges faced by current health systems, and provides options for moving forward. It serves as a pragmatic guide to potential strategies for putting in place family care teams which effectively contribute to health sector development within a variety of contexts. The Contribution of...