Investment in family medicine to improve health outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa.

IF 1.7 Q4 PRIMARY HEALTH CARE
Sunanda C Ray, Mpundu Makasa, Innocent Besigye, Jacob S Shabani, Martha Makwero
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Abstract

Family physicians (FPs), as educators, capacity builders and clinical governance leaders of primary care (PC) teams, work to make them more effective and responsive to the needs of their patients. Various strategies are required to raise the profile of Family Medicine (FM) to ensure stronger representation in health sector planning and policy development for advocacy on behalf of the communities they serve. An illustration is given of the need for FP leaders to become equal partners in the National Surgical, Obstetric and Anaesthesia Planning process to ensure safer surgery at district hospitals and to address unmet surgical needs. Integrating FM teaching throughout undergraduate medical programmes familiarises graduates with FM as a possible career choice. Collaboration with professional FP associations such as in Botswana, Kenya and Zambia has helped to define and promote the discipline of FM, increasing public and professional awareness of the specialty's value. Promoting development of an FP scope of practice as a collaborative exercise between academic FPs and national associations assists in differentiating the roles of FPs versus non-specialist generalists. The new generation of young FPs has played a significant role in marketing FM globally, using social media platforms to support each other and to share information and best practices for managing themselves and their patients. Positioning multidisciplinary PC teams at the centre of health systems, with strong leadership from FPs, integrated people-centred care and evidence-based practices, could catalyse the intensity of change needed for more equitable, cost-effective and sustainable healthcare in Africa.

投资家庭医药,改善撒哈拉以南非洲的健康状况。
家庭医生作为初级保健团队的教育工作者、能力建设者和临床治理领导者,努力使他们更有效地响应患者的需求。需要采取各种战略来提高家庭医学的形象,以确保在卫生部门的规划和政策制定中有更大的代表性,以便代表他们所服务的社区进行宣传。报告举例说明,计划生育领导人必须成为国家外科、产科和麻醉规划进程中的平等伙伴,以确保在地区医院进行更安全的手术,并解决未满足的手术需求。将FM教学纳入本科医学课程,使毕业生熟悉FM作为一种可能的职业选择。与博茨瓦纳、肯尼亚和赞比亚等国的专业计划生育协会合作,帮助定义和推广了计划生育学科,提高了公众和专业人士对该专业价值的认识。作为学术FP和国家协会之间的合作练习,促进FP实践范围的发展有助于区分FP与非专业通才的角色。新一代的年轻FPs在全球FM营销中发挥了重要作用,他们利用社交媒体平台相互支持,分享信息和管理自己和患者的最佳实践。将多学科个人保健小组定位在卫生系统的中心,由FPs、以人为中心的综合护理和基于证据的实践强有力地领导,可以促进在非洲实现更公平、更具成本效益和可持续的卫生保健所需的变革力度。
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