Equity of Access to Quality of Care in Family Medicine
1Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
2Department of General Practice, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3052, Australia
3Section of General Practice and Primary Care, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK
4Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care, Ghent University, De Pintelaan, 185 1K3 9000 Gent, Belgium
Equity of Access to Quality of Care in Family Medicine
Description
There is considerable evidence for disparities in health status according to socioeconomic status and disadvantaged communities and locations. Despite this, there is evidence in many health systems of “inverse care” in which these disadvantaged groups receive less access to primary care or a lower quality of care. Understanding and seeking to address the reasons for this are priorities for the development of family medicine in many countries.
We invite investigators to contribute original research articles as well as review articles that will stimulate continuing efforts to understand equity of access to quality of care in family medicine, the development of strategies to address inequities of access, and the evaluation of the impact and outcomes of these strategies.
We are particularly interested in articles describing and evaluating interventions to address socioeconomic inequalities in access to quality of care in family medicine. Potential topics include, but not limited to:
- Equity of access to family medicine or primary health care
- Barriers to locally available or timely access to family medicine in urban, rural, and remote areas
- Differentials in quality of prevention or management of conditions in family medicine
- Interventions to address inequities of access to quality of care in family medicine
- Ethnic or cultural disparities in access to family medicine including indigenous people
- Inequalities in access introduced by geography
- Theory of access to, or use of, primary health care including models from medical anthropology, sociology, or psychology
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