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Strategies to increase preventive care in general practice
Author(s) -
Ward Jeanette E,
Gordon Jill,
SansonFisher Rob W
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1991.tb119449.x
Subject(s) - preventive care , resource (disambiguation) , ideal (ethics) , health care , public relations , medical education , politics , psychology , medicine , political science , nursing , computer science , computer network , law
Objective: To develop strategies to overcome barriers to preventive care in general practice. Method: Participants invited to attend a one‐day works hop ranked barriers to preventive care in a pre‐workshop survey. During the workshop, small groups generated strategies to overcome the most influential barriers . After the workshop, participants nominated strategies for implementation in the ideal world and in the realities of resource constraints. Participants: Twenty‐six participants representing general practice, medical academe, funding authorities, health pol icy planners, researchers, medico political organisations and consumers. Results: The surveys yielded preferred strategies for implementation in the ideal world and 10 preferred strategies for implementation given likely resource constraints. Conclusions: Authoritative guidelines are needed to guide clinical practice and to evaluate research. Other comprehensive strategies to overcome barriers to preventive care must be implemented and evaluated for effectiveness and acceptability in field experiments before wider implementation. The con trolled implementation and evaluation of these strategies requires genuine collaboration amongst clinicians. health policy planners, researchers, fun ding authorities and general practice academe.