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    The Astana Declaration and future African primary health care
    (AOSIS, 2018-11) Mash, Robert
    At the recent Global Symposium on Health Systems, one of the participants commented that there are three trains currently running the global health agenda – the sustainable development goals, universal health coverage and primary health care. As I write this editorial, the intergovernmental meeting in Astana will be meeting to re-commit the world to primary health care as the essential and fundamental basis of cost-effective and equitable health systems. This meeting comes 40 years after the landmark Declaration of Alma Ata which rallied the world around the call of ‘health for all’ and primary health care. However, 40 years on and despite the 2008 World Health Report also declaring primary health care is needed ‘now more than ever’, the world has yet to fully realise the vision and potential of primary health care.
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    The contribution of family medicine to African health systems
    (AOSIS Publishing, 2016) Mash, Robert
    ENGLISH SUMMARY : No abstract available.
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    Editorial : changes to the South African Family Practice Journal
    (South African Academy of Family Physicians, 2019-11-19) Mash, Bob
    At the end of 2018 the contract with Medpharm to publish the South African Family Practice Journal was up for renewal. Over the last five years Medpharm has enabled the journal to obtain accreditation with the US National Library of Medicine and to be searchable on PubMed. This has raised the visibility and accessibility of the journal considerably, particularly as the original research is published on an international platform managed by Taylor and Francis.
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    Editorial : growing the discipline of family medicine as a counterculture
    (South African Academy of Family Physicians, 2019-10-28) Von Pressentin, Klaus B.
    I would like to start this editorial with a word of thanks. Thank you to the Academy (SAAFP)’s leadership for entrusting my colleague, Professor Indiran Govender (Assistant Editor), and me with the responsibility and opportunity to build on the work done by our predecessors. A read through the editorials since the journal’s birth in 1980 (available from: http://www.safpj.co.za) informed me of the innovative thinking behind building the discipline of family medicine and primary care over the past few decades.
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    Editorial : on being relationship-centred
    (South African Academy of Family Physicians, 2019-10-28) Von Pressentin, Klaus B.
    In my previous editorial,1 I mentioned the key ethos of our discipline, relationshipcentredness, which is a natural extension of our aspiration of focusing on the person behind the illness, by practising personcentred care within the context of the extended healthcare team.2 This aspiration is shared around the globe in the wider family medicine (FM) community. The different interpretations around the globe of what is meant by “general practice” and “family medicine” were discussed in one of the Besrour Centre’s papers, which grappled with the challenge of finding a global definition of FM.3 The authors concluded that, universally, the discipline remained responsive to local health needs, despite being practised in various forms across the globe. To remain locally relevant, the discipline and its practitioners’ unifying role (and identity) should remain grounded in relationships of care (with patients, colleagues and the community).
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    National health insurance – a bill too far?
    (AOSIS, 2019) Mash, Bob
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    Whole person medicine: psychosocial issues in primary care
    (AOSIS Publishing, 2016) Mash, Robert
    ENGLISH SUMMARY : No abstract available.
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    World Family Doctors Day 2019 : reflections from an African perspective
    (AOSIS, 2919) Mash, Robert
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