Introduction to LJPC issue 9.4. July/August 2017

Introduction to LJPC issue 9.4. July/August 2017

This Issue of LJPC shows how writing, painting, the arts and stories can reveal different, complementary aspects of health. Together they can build up rich pictures that are invisible to any one expression and different from the insights gained from facts and statistics about diseases. They can do more than reveal aspects of health; they can improve it. Claire Brash interviewed Stephen Bergman,...

Introduction to LJPC issue 8.6

(1) Papanikitas discusses how to use health care conferences to combine the study of ethics with efforts for ethical change. He concludes a need for workshops at conferences coupled with a facility to continue conversations in between conferences. He followed his own advice by leading a LJPC workshop at the 2016 RCGP conference that debated the need for both survival and flourishing of general ...

Introduction to LJPC issue 9.1

Happy New Year everyone. Issue 9.1 signals a 2017 new development for LJPC as we start to develop collaborating sites to illuminate community-oriented integrated care and health promotion (COIC) in different contexts. The four papers are written by LJPC editors and have arisen from discussions at the LJPC Board about how to support authors to evaluate COIC, to highlight emerging issues in ways ...

Introduction to LJPC Issue 9.5

Issue 9.5 of LJPC combines two essential aspects of modern-day primary care – good clinical care and leadership of integrated care. Victoria Tzortziou Brown and seven co-authors review six innovations designed to bring specialist expertise about Chronic Kidney Disease and Chronic Obstructive Airway Disease right into primary care. They discuss transferable lessons for shared care at local, comm...

Editor’s Introduction to This Issue (G&I 15:4, 2017)