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| Title |
The views of key leaders in South Africa on implementation of family medicine: critical role in the district health system
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Primary Care, June 2014
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2296-15-125 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Shabir Moosa, Bob Mash, Anselme Derese, Wim Peersman |
| Abstract |
Integrated team-based primary care is an international imperative. This is required more so in Africa, where fragmented verticalised care dominates. South Africa is trying to address this with health reforms, including Primary Health Care Re-engineering. Family physicians are already contributing to primary care despite family medicine being only fully registered as a full specialty in South Africa in 2008. However the views of leaders on family medicine and the role of family physicians is not clear, especially with recent health reforms. The aim of this study was to understand the views of key government and academic leaders in South Africa on family medicine, roles of family physicians and human resource issues. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| South Africa | 1 | 50% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 50% |
| Members of the public | 1 | 50% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| South Africa | 2 | 2% |
| Unknown | 97 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 19 | 19% |
| Researcher | 11 | 11% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 11 | 11% |
| Other | 9 | 9% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 5 | 5% |
| Other | 23 | 23% |
| Unknown | 21 | 21% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 39 | 39% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 12 | 12% |
| Social Sciences | 8 | 8% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 5 | 5% |
| Engineering | 2 | 2% |
| Other | 8 | 8% |
| Unknown | 25 | 25% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 29 June 2014.
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#19,962,154
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Outputs from BMC Primary Care
#1,892
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#168,694
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#36
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