Primary Health Care
Primary health care covers a broad range of health and preventative services, including health education, counselling, disease prevention and screening. A strong primary health care system is central to improving the health of all New Zealanders and reducing health inequalities between different groups.
Primary health care covers a broad range of health and preventative services, including health education, counselling, disease prevention and screening. A strong primary health care system is central to improving the health of all New Zealanders and reducing health inequalities between different groups.
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Evaluation of the Midlands Health Network Integrated Family Health Centre (IFHC) model of care: Phase II report
posted by Research Admin on 16 May 2013
Published 2013. Authors: Antony Raymont, Midlands Health Network, Primary Health Care Limited.
[Hamilton]: Midlands Health Network; Primary Health Care Limited
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Case Study
Implementing shared decision making: Clinical teams’ experiences of implementing shared decision making as part of the MAGIC programme (UK)
posted by HIIRC Admin on 10 Apr 2013
The Health Foundation’s MAGIC (Making good decisions in collaboration) improvement programme aims to support clinical teams in primary and secondary…
Event
Public Health Association of New Zealand Conference (New Plymouth)
posted by HIIRC Admin on 5 Apr 2013
The theme of the 2013 conference is Partnership or Collaboration; is there a difference? The theme is split into these…
Event
NZ College of Primary Health Care Nurses NZNO conference
posted by HIIRC Admin on 18 Feb 2013
"Leading the Winds of Change" is the title and theme of the 2013 NZ College of Primary Health Care Nurses…
International Literature
Reclaiming a population health perspective (England)
posted by HIIRC Admin on 8 May 2013
This report, commissioned by the National Association of Primary Care, examines the arguments for encouraging and enabling general practices to…
International Literature
Patients' experience and satisfaction with GP led walk-in centres in the UK
posted by HIIRC Admin on 19 Apr 2013
GP led walk-in centres were established in the UK in 2009. Around 150 such clinics were initially planned to open.…
International Literature
Home telemonitoring for chronic disease management: An economic assessment (Canada)
posted by HIIRC Admin on 2 Apr 2013
This economic analysis investigated consumption of healthcare services by 95 patients with various chronic diseases over a 21-month period (before,…
NZ Literature Abstract
Report on the performance of general practices in Whānau Ora collectives as at December 2012
posted by Research Admin on 10 May 2013
Published 2013. Author: Ministry of Health.
Wellington: Ministry of Health
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Events
- Identification of the barriers to the early diagnosis of lung cancer seminar - a mixed methods approach (Auckland)
- 4th South General Practice Conference & Medical Exhibition (GP CME) Meeting (Dunedin)
- Rotorua General Practice Conference & Medical Exhibition (GP CME) 2013
- Men's Health (PHARMAC Seminar Series, Wellington)
- 4th Asia Pacific Conference on Public Health (Vietnam)
Case Studies
- Implementing shared decision making: Clinical teams’ experiences of implementing shared decision making as part of the MAGIC programme (UK)
- Implementation of the Flinders Program by a Primary Health Organisation
- The Samoan Self Management Education Programme for People with Long Term Health Conditions
- Māori Diabetes Self Management Education
- Diabetes Self Management Education Programme
NZ Literature Abstracts
- Evaluation of the Midlands Health Network Integrated Family Health Centre (IFHC) model of care: Phase II report
- Report on the performance of general practices in Whānau Ora collectives as at December 2012
- The health status of Pacific children and young people in New Zealand
- New graduate nurses as knowledge brokers in general practice in New Zealand: A constructivist grounded theory
- Diabetes in pregnancy among indigenous women in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States: A systematic review of the evidence for screening in early pregnancy
International Literature
- Derivation and validation of QStroke score for predicting risk of ischaemic stroke in primary care and comparison with other risk scores: A prospective open cohort study (UK)
- Measures of promptness of cancer diagnosis in primary care: Secondary analysis of national audit data on patients with 18 common and rarer cancers (England)
- Reclaiming a population health perspective (England)
- Rating providers for quality: a policy worth pursuing? (England)
- A pilot study of the feasibility of an internet-based electronic outpatient cardiac rehabilitation (eOCR) program in rural primary care (Australia)
Discussion
- Budget 2013: Additional $21.3m to fight rheumatic fever
- Text messaging and the health target
- More children having B4 school health checks
- A qualitative evaluation of New Zealand consumers perceptions of general practice nurses
- What exposure do student nurses have to primary health care and community nursing during the New Zealand undergraduate Bachelor of Nursing programme?