Family Medicine and Community Health

is an open access journal focusing on the topics of family medicine, general practice and community health.

Impact Factor 2.6
Citescore 9.7
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FMCH strives to be a leading international journal that promotes 'Health Care for All' through disseminating novel knowledge and best practices in primary care, family medicine, and community health. FMCH publishes original research, review, methodology, commentary, reflection, and case-study from the lens of population health. FMCH's Asian Focus section features reports of family medicine development in the Asia-pacific region.

FMCH aims to serve a diverse audience including researchers, educators, policymakers and leaders of family medicine and community health. We also aim to provide content relevant for researchers working on population health, epidemiology, public policy, disease control and management, preventative medicine and disease burden. FMCH does not impose any article processing charges (APC) or submission charges.

FMCH was founded by the Beijing Huawei General Practice Research Institute (BHGPRI) as an internationally focused open access journal devoted to subjects that are common and relevant to family medicine, general practice and community health. FMCH is owned by BHGPRI

JOURNAL NEWS: Family Medicine and Community Health is now indexed in PubMed Central and Medline.

Access further content on the journal blog. Follow the journal on X and Facebook. FMCH has a Citescore of 9.6 (2023) and an Impact Factor of 2.6 (2023).

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Highlighted Articles

Primary care providers should prescribe aspirin to prevent cardiovascular disease based on benefit−risk ratio, not age

24 December 2021

Mobility and social deprivation on primary care utilisation among paediatric patients with asthma

9 July 2021

Primer on binary logistic regression

23 December 2021

New hypertension and diabetes diagnoses following the Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansion

17 December 2020

Authors

Family Medicine and Community Health accepts submissions of a wide range of article types, including Editorials, Original research, Focus on Asia Pacific, Review articles, Reflections, Case reports and Letters to the Editor.

The Author Information section provides specific article requirements to help you turn your research into an article suitable for FMCH.

Information is also provided on editorial and data policies.

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Latest Articles

Original research:

Reducing strain on primary healthcare systems through innovative models of care: the impact of direct access physiotherapy for musculoskeletal conditions--an interrupted time series analysis

24 September 2024

Perspective:

Survey of international experts on research priorities to improve care for healthy ageing

5 August 2024

Original research:

Global lessons on delivery of primary healthcare services for people with non-communicable diseases: convergent mixed methods

3 August 2024

Most Read Articles

Systematic review:

Patient aggression towards receptionists in general practice: a systematic review

18 October 2023

Original research:

Identifying depression and its determinants upon initiating treatment: ChatGPT versus primary care physicians

16 October 2023

Perspective:

Discussing menstrual health in family medicine

10 April 2024

Original research:

Association of COVID-19 with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infections in children aged 0–5 years in the USA in 2022: a multicentre retrospective cohort study

13 October 2023

Perspective:

Priorities for research on family planning impact: recommendations of a WHO Think Tank meeting

9 October 2023

Blog Posts

COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and related factors among primary health care workers in a district of Istanbul: A cross-sectional study from Turkey

10 May 2022

In the Journal

Staying psychologically safe as a doctor during the COVID-19 pandemic

18 February 2022

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Introducing longitudinal qualitative research to family medicine community

16 December 2021

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Delivery of healthcare provider’s lifestyle advice and lifestyle behavioural change in adults who were overweight or obese in pre-diabetes management in the USA NHANES (2013–2018)

26 November 2021

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Insights into the design, development and implementation of a novel digital health tool for skilled birth attendants to support quality maternity care in Kenya

20 August 2021

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Altmetrics

Association of COVID-19 with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infections in children aged 0–5 years in the USA in 2022: a multicentre retrospective cohort study
13 October 2023

Identifying depression and its determinants upon initiating treatment: ChatGPT versus primary care physicians
16 October 2023

Efficacy of journaling in the management of mental illness: a systematic review and meta-analysis
18 March 2022

Associations between concussion and risk of diagnosis of psychological and neurological disorders: a retrospective population-based cohort study
27 July 2020

Biopsy of Canada’s family physician shortage
12 May 2023

Trustworthy evidence-based versus untrustworthy guidelines: detecting the difference
6 October 2023

Featured Video

Family Medicine and Community Health - Our Full Story

12 March 2024

Listen to Editor-in-Chief of Family Medicine and Community Health, Prof. Li Li, talk about the journal's aims and scope, the advice he has for authors thinking about submitting to the journal, what the journal has to offer to readers, highlights from the journal and what the journal has planned for 2024.

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