Call for Papers

The Australian Journal of Primary Health is interested in papers on:

Health Reforms and Policy Implementation (special issue)

Primary Health Care and Climate Change (general papers)

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Health Reforms and Policy Implementation
Guest Editors: Professor Vivian Lin and Professor Ian Anderson

We are calling for papers relevant to policy reforms and implementation of primary health care for this special themed issue to be published in September 2010.

To facilitate the development of papers, we are initially seeking expressions of interest for papers that (1) address the key themes for primary health care in the current reform agenda, (2) provide a synthesis of evidence and critical thinking that might guide the detailed development and implementation of reforms, (3) draw lessons from previous efforts in policy implementation that can point to how current policy proposals might be realised, and (4) draw on a range of disciplinary, professional and community perspectives. We would particularly welcome papers that address issues related to social and locational disadvantage.

The expressions of interest are due by 1 February 2010 and invitations to develop them into full papers will be issued by 22 February 2010. Full papers will be required by 26 April 2010.

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Primary Health Care and Climate Change

We are interested in papers on primary health care and climate change. Primary health care has a remit to address the forces that have a demonstrable impact on the health of community members, whether the forces are biological, social, economic, cultural or political, and to do this within the context of a service and community system while retaining core values of social justice, community participation and solidarity. This remit for primary health care shapes its engagement with the problem of climate change. Read more in this paper.

How we are to understand climate change in a comprehensive primary health care framework? What it is that researchers and services need to be doing?

Putting together the effects of climate change, community responses to it and the implications for primary health care, is a new challenge that we wish to explore in the Australian Journal of Primary Health. Examples of themes that would be of interest include:

Conceptualising the effects of climate change (e.g. reconceptualising long term declines in rainfall as dryness rather than drought) and the implications for policy and services that follow from the redefinition.

Resilience (at individual, family, community levels) in the face of social, economic, political and environmental change.

Incorporating responses (coping, adaptation and mitigation) to climate change into services and the service system.

Primary health care engagement with disaster planning, response and recovery.

Identification of population groups most at risk from climate change related stressors.

If you would like to contribute an article, please submit your paper through the online journal management system OSPREY

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