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Keywords

Community Health Services; General Practice; Health system performance assessment; Public Health; Social Determinants of Health

Research group(s)

• Family Medicine and Community Health
  Members:
  • Kathryn Hoffmann

Research interests

From my professional background I am a Family Doctor and Public Health expert. My research and teaching focuses are on primary health care, family medicine, health systems research, and public health. Since I am particularly interested in Community-Oriented Primary Care (COPC) approaches, I am collaborating closely with the Duke University, Division of Family and Community Medicine, NC, USA and at the Ghent University in Belgium. Research in this area is highly complex and therefore, I am experience in qualitative, quantitative as well as mixed-method approaches. I am the Austrian representative of the European General Practice Research Network and advisory board member of the European Forum for Primary Care. In the last years, I have been the Austrian coordinator of several large-scale EU-funded research projects which mainly focus on the quality and structure of Primary Health Care Systems worldwide.

Techniques, methods & infrastructure

Qualitative and quantitative research methods as well as mixed method approaches.

Selected publications

1. Hoffmann, K. et al., 2013. Access points to the different levels of health care and demographic predictors in a country without a gatekeeping system. Results of a cross-sectional study from Austria. The European Journal of Public Health, 23(6), pp.933-939. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckt008.
2. Hoffmann, K. et al., 2015. Associations and Synergistic Effects for Psychological Distress and Chronic Back Pain on the Utilization of Different Levels of Ambulatory Health Care. A Cross-Sectional Study from Austria C. van der Feltz-Cornelis, ed. PLoS ONE, 10(7), p.e0134136. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0134136.
3. Hoffmann, K. et al., 2013. Antibiotics and their effects: what do patients know and what is their source of information? The European Journal of Public Health, 24(3), pp.502-507. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckt112.
4. Hoffmann, K. et al., 2015. Prevalence and resistance patterns of commensal S. aureus in community-dwelling GP patients and socio-demographic associations. A cross-sectional study in the framework of the APRES-project in Austria. BMC Infectious Diseases, 15(1). Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-015-0949-1.
5. Moosa, S. et al., 2014. The inverse primary care law in sub-Saharan Africa: a qualitative study of the views of migrant health workers. British Journal of General Practice, 64(623), pp.e321-e328. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.3399/bjgp14X680089.