Primary Care Research Should Be Done in Primary Care Settings

Primary care--directions we should be taking.

In 1978 at Alma Ata, Malaysia endorsed the World Health Organization's Declaration of Health for All through Primary Health Care. Since then Malaysia has made great strides in meeting its objectives. There is now an expanded scope of services with better facilities in the public community polyclinics. Primary Care departments have been established in the local universities, either independently...

Should Australia develop primary care research networks?

Primary care research networks have emerged in other countries over the past decade. Rigorous data to determine the level of their achievement are lacking. Research networks are a part of the current Australian primary healthcare research capacity building program, yet we have no systematic approach to their introduction. Australian networks should build upon international experience and should...

Mental health care in primary care settings.

Occupational therapy in primary health care: we should be there.

Sherry Muir, MOT, OTR/L, is Assistant Professor, Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, St. Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63103; [email protected] For me, the concept that occupational therapy belongs in primary care began to form slowly, with those brief, casual conversations that practitioners have every day in their personal lives, such as at a school o...

Breast clinic referrals – should mastalgia be managed in primary care?

Background Following centralisation of breast cancer services in Ireland, the number of patients attending symptomatic breast units (SBU) has increased significantly. A considerable proportion of patients referred to SBU present with non-suspicious symptoms and fall into a “low-risk” category for breast cancer. It has been proposed that consideration be given to a GP-delivered service for these...