Guest Editorial: Primary care workforce planning: What's happened to the 'Logan' report?

The future of primary care? Reflections on the Primary Care Workforce Commission report.

Guest editorial: toward a systemic approach to the global health workforce.

here are several interrelated themes in the global health workforce literature. Some writers focus on broad issues of supply and metrics for assessing need and the adequacy of the health workforce. Attention is given to provider/population ratios, benchmarking, population and needs-based estimates of need, institutional staffing ratios, and other approaches to health workforce planning. The qua...

Guest Editorial: How valuable are systematic reviews for primary health care practitioners?

97 CSIRO Publishing Journal Compilation © Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners 2017 This is an open access article licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License CorrespondenCe to: Felicity Goodyear-smith Head of Department, General Practice and Primary Health Care, School of Population Health, University of Auckland, New Zealan...

Guest Editorial: Reinventing the Wheels

duty vehicles are amazing artifacts, made by the world's largest industry and fueled by the second-largest. American automakers make a new light vehicle every 2 seconds. Cheaper per kilogram than a fast-food hamburger, those vehicles meet conflicting requirements for performance, emissions, fuel economy, esthetics, and safety with remarkable skill. Yet, a typical light vehicle releases its own ...

Guest Editorial Meeting the challenge

It is a great privilege to be asked to contribute some comments to this special issue of JIS. I have enjoyed reading these papers, and seeing how much our field has moved on since the Journal of Documentation attempted a similar historical survey in 1994 [1], just as the internet was ‘taking off’. My first thoughts were of Jason Farradane, who played such a big part in founding the Institute of...