Series: The research agenda for general practice/family medicine and primary health care in Europe. Part 2. Results: Primary care management and community orientation.

摘要

Understanding the importance, position, and relevance of this second paper in a series of articles requires a review of the first three references. When placed into the ongoing work of several years, it is a useful report, revealing a hunger for much better knowledge about general practice/family medicine (GP/FM) and also primary care. Of course, primary care and GP/FM) are not the same thing. Primary care is a foundational function to successful, sustainable health care systems, and GP/FM is a medical discipline, long in evolution, undergoing not a tweaking, but a re-make throughout the developed world. The size and scope of the redesign of GP/FM makes the focus on primary care management and community orientation not just relevant, but timely. Studying this paper and some of its references was revealing and provocative of both some general observations and also some very specific reactions.