By Paul Amendola, Executive Director, VecnaCares Reference: Bartlett L, Avery L, Ponnappan P, et al, Insights into the design, development and implementation of a novel digital health tool for skilled birth attendants to support quality maternity care in Kenya, Family Medicine and Community Health 2021;9:e000845. doi: 10.1136/fmch-2020-000845 The appetite for and ability to collect accurate digital patient-level data in low-resource settings has […]
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Analysis of primary care prescription trends in England during the COVID-19 pandemic compared against a predictive model
By John Scott Frazer, Glenn Ross Frazer Reference: Frazer JS, Frazer GR, Analysis of primary care prescription trends in England during the COVID-19 pandemic compared against a predictive model, Family Medicine and Community Health 2021;9:e001143. doi: 10.1136/fmch-2021-001143 The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in profound changes in patient and prescriber behaviour. Increased health anxiety has been a feature of the […]
Do statins reduce mortality in older people? Findings from a longitudinal study using primary care records
By Lisanne Andra Gitsels and Elena Kulinskaya Reference: Gitsels LA, Bakbergenuly I, Steel N, et al, Do statins reduce mortality in older people? Findings from a longitudinal study using primary care records, Family Medicine and Community Health 2021;9:e000780. doi: 10.1136/fmch-2020-000780 Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the biggest cause of death from non-communicable disease in the world.1 Clinical guidelines internationally recommend statin therapy […]
Paediatric primary care in Germany during the early COVID-19 pandemic: the calm before the storm
By Malte Kohns Vasconcelos, MD MSc on behalf of the authors Reference: Kohns Vasconcelos M, Weil K, Vesterling-Hörner D, et al, Paediatric primary care in Germany during the early COVID-19 pandemic: the calm before the storm, Family Medicine and Community Health 2021;9:e000919. doi: 10.1136/fmch-2021-000919 In our report, we describe the perspective of paediatric primary care providers in a densely populated area in Germany […]
Medical use and misuse of psychoactive prescription medications among US youth and young adults: An Introduction
By: Israel Agaku, PhD Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Boston MA iagaku@post.harvard.edu Our interest in the issue of prescription medication misuse1 is underpinned by the large number of preventable deaths each year from drug overdose; in 2018, there were 67,367 drug overdose deaths in the United States, making this, along with other unintentional injuries such […]
Approaches for Quelling Stigma related to COVID-19
Associate Professor & Dr. Longtao He, Research Institute of Social Development, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Chengdu, China. Address: 55 Guanghuacun Road, Chengdu City, 610074, China. Email: lzhlt01@hotmail.com ORCID 0000-0001-7072-7457 Since the COVID-19 outbreak in China, “Wuhan” and “Wuhanese” have become terms equivalent to the virus itself for many Chinese citizens outside of […]
Identifying the comprehensive framework and concept of Health literacy by qualitative synthesis
By the FMCH Editorial Office Reference: Liu C, Wang D, Liu C, et al. What is the meaning of health literacy? A systematic review and qualitative synthesis. Family Medicine and Community Health 2020;8:e000351. doi: 10.1136/fmch-2020-000351 Question: This study aimed to clarify what health literacy represents. Finding: This study, applying a systematic review and qualitative synthesis […]
Clinical and laboratory characteristics of Chinese Covid-19 patients
FMCH Editorial office Reference: Zhu J, Zhong Z, Ji P, et al Clinicopathological characteristics of 8697 patients with COVID-19 in China: a meta-analysisFamily Medicine and Community Health 2020;8:e000406. doi: 10.1136/fmch-2020-000406 What are the clinical and laboratory characteristics of Chinese patients affected by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)? By the progress of the pandemic and […]
FMCH is now indexed in PubMed Central and Medline!
FMCH Editorial Office Family Medicine and Community Health (FMCH) is now indexed in PubMed Central and Medline! All issues published from 2019/2020 could be searched in Pubmed/Medline now. You can find FMCH in Medline here and in Pubmed here. FMCH strives to be a leading international journal that promotes ‘Health Care for All’ through disseminating […]
Equipping GPs with psychological skills during the pandemic
Author Name: Chuan Zou, Attending physician Affiliation: Chengdu Fifth People’s Hospital, Chengdu university of TCM Email: zou5chuan@163.com Although I am a general practitioner (GP) with special interest in mental health, I cannot offer help when my father is hospitalized for depression and mother suffers from anxiety, due to their indirect contact with the suspected COVID-19 […]