Editor
Professor Jeffrey Scherrer
Call for Papers: Climate Crisis and Primary Health Care
We are seeking primary health care research on issues related to the climate crisis - addressing physical illness, mental health, prevention and health promotion, sustainability of primary health care, and more.
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NAPCRG Best Paper
The 2021 winning paper is "Obesity management in primary care: systematic review exploring the influence of therapeutic alliance" by Sturgiss et al., which outlines recommendations that could apply beyond the study of obesity management.
Supplement: COVID-19 in Primary Care
Professor Jeffrey Scherrer, Editor-in-Chief of Family Practice & Niharika Khanna, MD, Supplement Guest Editor:
"This is a unique supplement in that funding was solicited from our Editorial Board members' institutions.
Primary Care has provided screening, testing and quarantine care to ambulatory COVID-19 patients in every country in the world during the pandemic of 2019-2021. The ‘COVID-19 in Primary Care’ supplement provided an opportunity to elevate the work of primary care and shine a light on the wonderful work that is happening in offices, clinics, hospitals, and communities throughout the world."
Health Equity Hub
Discover OUP's year-long initiative in support of health equity. We will dig into new themes every quarter by releasing a new collection of free resources.
CASFM Methods Briefs
The peer-reviewed CASFM Methods Briefs are now regularly published in Family Practice, as a result of a partnership between the journal and the North American Primary Care Research Group (NAPCRG)'s Committee on Advancing the Science of Family Medicine (CASFM). The long-term aim is to generate a library of qualitative and quantitative research methods.
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Family Practice is an international journal aimed at practitioners, teachers, and researchers in the fields of family medicine, general practice, and primary care in both developed and developing countries. Find out more about submitting from the below links.
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