African primary care research : choosing a topic and developing a proposal
Date
2014-02
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AOSIS Publishing
Abstract
This is the first in a series of articles on primary care research in the African context.
The aim of the series is to help build capacity for primary care research amongst the
emerging departments of family medicine and primary care on the continent. Many of
the departments are developing Masters of Medicine programmes in Family Medicine
and their students will all be required to complete research studies as part of their degree.
This series is being written with this audience in particular in mind – both the students
who must conceptualise and implement a research project as well as their supervisors who
must assist them.
This article gives an overview of the African primary care context, followed by a typology of
primary care research. The article then goes on to assist the reader with choosing a topic and
defining their research question. Finally the article addresses the structure and contents of a
research proposal and the ethical issues that should be considered.
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CITATION: Mash, B. 2014. African primary care research: Choosing a topic and developing a proposal. African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine, 6(1): 1-6, doi: 10.4102/phcfm.v6i1.580.
The original publication is available at http://www.phcfm.org
The original publication is available at http://www.phcfm.org
Keywords
Primary care (Medicine) -- Research -- Africa, Family medicine -- Research -- Africa, Proposal writing in medicine -- Africa, Primary care (Medicine) -- Research -- Planning
Citation
Mash, B. 2014. African primary care research: Choosing a topic and developing a proposal. African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine, 6(1): 1-6, doi: 10.4102/phcfm.v6i1.580