By Jill Benson, Discipline of General Practice, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia, jill.benson@adelaide.edu.au Co – authors: Roger Sexton – Doctors Health SA, Adelaide, Australia; Christopher Dowrick – Department of Primary Medical Care, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom; Christine Gibson – Department of Family Medicine and Psychiatry, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Canada; […]
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Introducing longitudinal qualitative research to family medicine community
By M. Wanat (Infectious Diseases Research Group, University of Oxford), A.M. Boylan (Centre for Evidence Based Medicine, University of Oxford), A. Borek (Infections & Acute Care Research Group, University of Oxford) Reference: Wanat, M, Boylan, A-M & Borek, A. Value, challenges and practical considerations when designing, conducting and analysing a longitudinal qualitative study in family […]
Delivery of healthcare provider’s lifestyle advice and lifestyle behavioural change in adults who were overweight or obese in pre-diabetes management in the USA NHANES (2013–2018)
By Jun Wu, PhD Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical and Administrative Sciences, Presbyterian College School of Pharmacy Reference: Davis-Ajami ML, Lu ZK, Wu J, Delivery of healthcare provider’s lifestyle advice and lifestyle behavioural change in adults who were overweight or obese in pre-diabetes management in the USA: NHANES (2013–2018), Family Medicine and Community Health 2021;9:e001139. doi: 10.1136/fmch-2021-001139 Prediabetes, a health condition with blood sugar […]
Insights into the design, development and implementation of a novel digital health tool for skilled birth attendants to support quality maternity care in Kenya
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]