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HEALTH RESEARCH LITERACY: A NEW APPROACH TO INVOLVING RURAL GENERAL PRACTITIONERS IN RESEARCH AND EVALUATION
Author(s) -
Wise Anne
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
australian journal of rural health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.48
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1440-1584
pISSN - 1038-5282
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1584.1996.tb00219.x
Subject(s) - literacy , rural health , global positioning system , medical education , health literacy , nursing , general practice , medicine , rural area , psychology , health care , family medicine , pedagogy , political science , computer science , telecommunications , pathology , law
Rural general practitioners (GPs) are currently involved in two concurrent and systematic programs of research/evaluation. These programs are generated, respectively, by initiatives in rural health and in general practice. This paper examines the consequences of this involvement by GPs as implementers and/or targets of components of each of these programs, and concludes that it is appropriate that they be provided in a systematic way with the knowledge and skills base they need to empower them to participate in (both developmentally and at the implementation level) and/or to appraise the research impinging on their lives. Six broad levels of involvement in rural health research are identified for rural doctors in this paper, which proposes an innovative strategy — health research literacy — to assist doctors at these various levels of involvement.