Fundamental research at primary care level
| Autor: | Kerr L White |
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| Rok vydání: | 2000 |
| Předmět: |
Gerontology
Adult Medical education medicine.medical_specialty Physician-Patient Relations Primary Health Care business.industry Public health education Staffing Health services research General Medicine Natural history of disease Power (social and political) Specimen collection Health care medicine Humans Health Services Research business Child Developed country Stress Psychological |
| Zdroj: | Lancet (London, England). 355(9218) |
| ISSN: | 0140-6736 |
| Popis: | Two Canadian medical schools may have appointed a family physician as dean, but in most of the developed world primary care is held in low esteem in academic establishments. If, as I believe, primary care provides the essential underpinning for any rationally balanced health service why do so many in positions of academic power and influence have a negative opinion of general practitioners and family physicians? In my view, this negativity is because primary care investigators, as opposed to their biomedical colleagues, have contributed little fundamental knowledge on the origins and natural history of disease. Studies of physicians’ activities, problem distributions, training schemes, prescribing patterns, appointment strategies, office staffing, specimen collection, and management strategies are helpful. They are health services research, an enterprise with which I have been involved for decades; I welcome them and we need more. Health services research, however, does not throw much |
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