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Primary care workforce and systems

Guest Editors
Laura Jefferson, PhD, University of York, UK
Maria Mathews, PhD, Western University, Canada
Gareth Rees, PhD, Esan University, Peru

Submission Status: Open until 20 February 2026

Exercise prescription and patient outcomes

Guest Editors
Monique Araujo, PhD, São Paulo State University, Brazil
Garrett Ash, PhD, Yale University, USA
Lianne Wood, PhD, MSc, University of Exeter, UK

Submission Status: Open until 22 January 2026

Physiotherapists as first contact practitioners

Guest Editors
Jordan Miller, MSc, PhD, Queen’s University, Canada
Andrews K. Tawiah, PhD, Western University, Canada

Submission Status: Open until 18 December 2025

Advancing health equity through implementation science

Guest Editors
Fitriana Murriya Ekawati, PhD in General Practice, Master of Primary Health Care, Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia
Dorothy Lall, MBBS, MD, PhD, Christian Medical College Vellore, India
Gritt Overbeck, PhD, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Submission Status: Open until 4 November 2025

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Digital primary care

Guest Editors
Anna De Simoni, MBBS, PhD, MRCGP, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Pramendra Prasad Gupta, B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Nepal
Wenhua Wang, PhD, Xi’an Jiao Tong University, China
Apichai Wattanapisit, MD, Walailak University, Thailand

Submission Status: Open until 15 October 2025

Primary care research in underrepresented populations

Guest Editors
Adelson Guaraci Jantsch, PhD in Public Health, The Open University of the Unified Health System, Brazil
Asvini Kokila Subasinghe, BA/BSc (Hons), PhD, Monash University, Australia

Submission Status: Open until 24 June 2025

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Social prescribing

Guest Editors
Kate Mulligan, PhD, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Canada
Candice Oster, BA (Hons), PhD, Flinders University, Caring Futures Institute, Australia

Diabetes in primary care

Guest Editors
Hilda Hounkpatin, BSc (Hons), MPH, PhD, University of Southampton, UK
Eric Kam-Pui Lee, MD Candidate, MBBS, FHKCFP, FRACGP, FHKAM, MSc EBHC, MSc Mental Health, DPD, Dip Med, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Andrea Nederveld, MD, MPH, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, USA
Paul Van Royen, MD, PhD, University of Antwerp, Belgium

Trust and mistrust in primary care

Guest Editors
Derek T. Dangerfield II, PhD, George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health, USA
Achim Mortsiefer, PhD, Witten/Herdecke University, Germany

Managing neurodegenerative disease in primary care

Guest Editors
Sabine Bayen, MD, PhD, University of Lille, France
Soo Borson, MD, University of Southern California, USA

Prevention and management of cardiovascular disease in primary care

Guest Editors:
Gup Iloh, MBBS, MPH, MPA, MSc-PH, FMCFM, FWACP, PhD, MD, FSEPH, FSEPHWA: Federal Medical Centre, Umuahia, Nigeria, and Rhema University, Nigeria
Csaba Móczár, MD, PhD: Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary

The future of primary care: innovations, challenges, and opportunities

Guest Editors:
Filipe Prazeres, MD, MSc, PhD: University of Beira Interior, Portugal
Mohamud A. Verjee, BSc (Hons), MBChB, DRCOG, CCFP, FCFP, MBA: Weill Cornell Medicine, Qatar

The role of community health workers in primary care

Guest Editors:
Indiran Govender, PhD: Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University, Gauteng Province, South Africa
Lisa R Hirschhorn, MD, MPH: Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, USA
Joseph Mumba Zulu, PhD: School of Public Health, University of Zambia, Zambia

Mental health in primary care

Guest Editors:
Marisa Sklar, PhD: IN STEP Children’s Mental Health Research Center, UC San Diego ACTRI Dissemination and Implementation Science Center (DISC), Child & Adolescent Services Research Center (CASRC), University of California San Diego, San Diego, USA
Courtney Benjamin Wolk, PhD: Penn Center for Mental Health in the Department of Psychiatry, Mental Health Implementation Research at the Penn Implementation Science Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA

Frailty in primary care

Guest Editors:
Kristiana Ludlow, PhD: Centre for Health Services Research, Faculty of Medicine, the University of Queensland, Australia
Natasha Reid, PhD: Centre for Health Services Research, Faculty of Medicine, the University of Queensland, Australia
Oliver M Todd, BSc, MBBS, PhD: Academic Unit for Ageing and Stroke Research, University of Leeds, UK
Hakan Yaman, MD, MS: Anatolia Hospital, Antalya, Türkiye

Outpatient management of the kidney patient for the primary care practitioner

Guest Editors:
Bernard G. Jaar, MD, MPH: Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA
Sumeska Thavarajah, MD: Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA
David S. Weisman, DO, FACP: Georgetown School of Medicine, Washington, D.C., USA

Multimorbidity in primary care

Guest Editors:
Lloyd D Hughes, BSc, MBBS: NHS Tayside, UK
Filipe Prazeres, PhD: University of Beira Interior, Portugal
Ingmar Schäfer, PhD: University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany
Jean Karl Soler, MD, PhD: European General Practice Research Network, Malta

2015

Thematic Series

Impact of Comorbidity and multimorbidity on primary care practice
BMC Family Practice
This ongoing thematic series will examine the breadth of comorbidity and multimorbidity research and their impact on clinical practice. We invite contributions reporting different research methods to add to the literature, including clinical trials, epidemiological and qualitative studies.
Edited by Dr. Carolyn Chew-Graham
Last updated: 24 November 2015

Cross Journal Collection

The Many Meanings of 'Quality' in Healthcare: Interdisciplinary Perspective
Edited by: Dr Deborah Swinglehurst
Collection published: 23 April 2015
Last updated: 3 July 2015

2014