Research on Primary Care for Populations that Experience Health Disparities
Council Date: May 31, 2024
Objective
Support research on primary care in populations that experience health disparities to:
- Understand the role of primary care in reducing disparities and promoting health equity.
- Evaluate multilevel factors and mechanisms that facilitate or challenge the effectiveness of primary care.
- Support sustainable, innovative strategies within primary care that improve health and health outcomes.
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Description of Initiative
The purpose of this initiative is to support research on primary care for populations that experience health disparities. Of particular interest is research that investigates the effectiveness of primary care in addressing the health care needs of populations that experience health disparities and develops, tests, implements, and/or evaluates sustainable, innovative interventions within primary care settings designed to reduce health disparities and advance health equity.
Study designs and methods could include mixed methods, natural experiments, quasi-experimental or clinical trials (e.g., RCT, clustered randomization of primary care practices, or pragmatic), retrospective and prospective analyses, simulation modeling, and others. Comprehensive conceptual frameworks should guide the community-engaged development of effective evidence-based and sustainable strategies that can be implemented in and disseminated across primary care settings. Studies that prioritize clinically significant outcomes or intermediate clinical outcomes or risk factors that drive the clinically significant outcomes are of interest. Studies in any setting in which populations that experience health disparities receive primary care are of interest (e.g., academic, community, low-resource, retail, and workplace).
Research Priorities:
- Provision of high-quality primary care to improve health outcomes
- Coordination of care through interprofessional teams to improve primary care quality and health outcomes
- Role, structure, and effectiveness of primary care in unique populations and/or settings
- Role of the primary care workforce in facilitating or challenging the effectiveness of primary care
Download the full research concept paper: Research on Primary Care for Populations that Experience Health Disparities
Page published July 30, 2024
