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What you said about PHC RIS infonet

Earlier this year PHC RIS sought out your feedback on the content and design of the newsletter, PHC RIS infonet. The newsletter currently has 1184 subscribers, averages around 16 pages per issue, and was last revised in 2004. This survey was designed to monitor stakeholder perceptions of PHC RIS infonet and to find out what subscribers think of the current content and format. One week after the printed copies of the August issue of PHC RIS infonet were distributed an email was sent to a randomly selected sample of subscribers letting them know they would be contacted. A week later this email was followed up with phone calls during which the interviews were conducted. Thirty-two stakeholders were contacted.

• The results indicated that PHC RIS infonet was highly valued among its subscribers, and in forty percent of cases the only primary health care newsletter they read.
• More than seventy-five percent of those surveyed were either very satisfied or satisfied with the length of the articles, frequency of the newsletter, style of writing and more than sixty percent of those surveyed said they were either very satisfied or satisfied with the length of the newsletter, and the layout, colour and graphics.
• Twenty-six participants had received the August issue of PHC RIS infonet, 14 had read it at the time of the interview, and 10 while they had not read it said they planned to read the newsletter.
• Twenty-eight participants said that when they read PHC RIS infonet they scan it.
• Fourteen participants said they would prefer to receive PHC RIS infonet in electronic format, 11 said they would prefer to receive PHC RIS infonet in hard copy, three said they would like to receive it in both formats.
• Five participants said they would prefer to receive an electronic version for environmental reasons.
• Eleven participants said they found the editorial section most useful, 10 said they found the conference reports section most useful, six said they found the PHC RIS news section most useful, five said they found the RCBI section most useful.