the editorial “non-physician clinicians in sub-saharan africa and the evolving role of physicians” by eyal et al describes non-physician clinicians’ (npc) need for mentorship and support from physicians. we emphasise the same need of support for front line generalist primary healthcare providers who carry out complex tasks yet may have an inadequate skill mix.

In an interesting article Wieteke van Dijk and colleagues argue that societal developments and values influence the practice of medicine, and thus can result in both medicalisation and overdiagnosis. They provide a convincing argument that overdiagnosis emerges in a social context and that it has socially constructed implications. However, they fail to show that overdiagnosis per se is socially...

Background: Indonesia remains the highest tuberculosis morbidity rate, 9.6 million globally. Limited detection and surveillance of suspected need to be enhanced. Objective: This study aims investigate factors that influence role Physicians in screening for tuberculosis. Materials Methods: a case-control with secondary datasets 132 physicians. The analysis used is simple logistic regression mult...

background: access to family physicians plays an important role in individuals' health and health indicators. this study aimed to determine the effect of family physicians lodge on performance indicators of rural family physicians working in health centers of jiroft and kerman universities of medical sciences. methods: in this cross - sectional study conducted in 2013, 26 lodge physicians (as t...