General practitioners’ experiences of being involved in local public health work in Norway. A qualitative study
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2022Metadata
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Aim
The aim was to explore how general practitioners experienced being involved in local public health work and how they worked with prevention and health promotion clinically after the introduction of the Public Health Act in 2012.
Design, setting and subjects
Qualitative study with focus groups interviews with 18 GPs from different municipalities in Norway.
Results
The GPs said that they either had not at all or only to a limited extent been involved in local public health work in their municipalities. They reported finding it hard to prioritize individual disease prevention and health promotion in their clinical work. GPs thought of health promotion as something that mainly concerned healthy people at a group level.
Conclusions
Based on the experiences of the GPs in this study, there is a gap between governmental expectations to the role of GPs in public health, and how it works in practice.