Associate Professor & Dr. Longtao He, Research Institute of Social Development, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Chengdu, China. Address: 55 Guanghuacun Road, Chengdu City, 610074, China. Email: lzhlt01@hotmail.com ORCID 0000-0001-7072-7457   Since the COVID-19 outbreak in China, “Wuhan” and “Wuhanese” have become terms equivalent to the virus itself for many Chinese citizens outside of ..read more

By Malte Kohns Vasconcelos, MD MSc on behalf of the authors Reference: Kohns Vasconcelos M, Weil K, Vesterling-Hörner D, et al, Paediatric primary care in Germany during the early COVID-19 pandemic: the calm before the storm, Family Medicine and Community Health 2021;9:e000919. doi: 10.1136/fmch-2021-000919 In our report, we describe the perspective of paediatric primary care providers in a densely populated area in Germany ..read more

By: Israel Agaku, PhD Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Boston MA iagaku@post.harvard.edu Our interest in the issue of prescription medication misuse1 is underpinned by the large number of preventable deaths each year from drug overdose; in 2018, there were 67,367 drug overdose deaths in the United States, making this, along with other unintentional injuries such ..read more

By John Scott Frazer, Glenn Ross Frazer Reference: Frazer JS, Frazer GR, Analysis of primary care prescription trends in England during the COVID-19 pandemic compared against a predictive model, Family Medicine and Community Health 2021;9:e001143. doi: 10.1136/fmch-2021-001143   The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in profound changes in patient and prescriber behaviour. Increased health anxiety has been a feature of the ..read more

By Lisanne Andra Gitsels and Elena Kulinskaya Reference: Gitsels LA, Bakbergenuly I, Steel N, et al, Do statins reduce mortality in older people? Findings from a longitudinal study using primary care records, Family Medicine and Community Health 2021;9:e000780. doi: 10.1136/fmch-2020-000780   Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the biggest cause of death from non-communicable disease in the world.1 Clinical guidelines internationally recommend statin therapy ..read more

By Paul Amendola, Executive Director, VecnaCares Reference: Bartlett L, Avery L, Ponnappan P, et al, Insights into the design, development and implementation of a novel digital health tool for skilled birth attendants to support quality maternity care in Kenya, Family Medicine and Community Health 2021;9:e000845. doi: 10.1136/fmch-2020-000845   The appetite for and ability to collect accurate digital patient-level data in low-resource settings has ..read more

By M. Wanat (Infectious Diseases Research Group, University of Oxford), A.M. Boylan (Centre for Evidence Based Medicine, University of Oxford), A. Borek (Infections & Acute Care Research Group, University of Oxford)  Reference: Wanat, M, Boylan, A-M & Borek, A. Value, challenges and practical considerations when designing, conducting and analysing a longitudinal qualitative study in family ..read more

By Jill Benson, Discipline of General Practice, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia, jill.benson@adelaide.edu.au Co – authors: Roger Sexton – Doctors Health SA, Adelaide, Australia; Christopher Dowrick – Department of Primary Medical Care, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom; Christine Gibson – Department of Family Medicine and Psychiatry, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Canada ..read more

Introductory article to İkİIşik H, Sezerol MA, Taşçı Y, et alCOVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and related factors among primary healthcare workers in a district of Istanbul: a cross-sectional study from TurkeyFamily Medicine and Community Health 2022;10:e001430. doi: 10.1136/fmch-2021-001430 INTRODUCTION Vaccination is an important weapon in the fight against the pandemic and is one of the most ..read more