Intro to fam med and FAMILY STRUCTURE AND FAMILY FUNCTION Flashcards
why study family and community mendicine
- shows that HC that emphasizes PHC has better outputs
- better health outcome
- less hospitilization
- increased patient satisfaction
- lower costs
Characteristics of Primary Health Care
› First contact accessibility
› Person-focused longitudinal care
› Comprehensiveness
› Coordination
as both an academic discipline and clinical
specialty
● Included in basic medical education
FAMILY MEDICINE
FAMILY MEDICINE
- ● One of the major rotations in medical postgraduate
internship - comprehensive and holistic care to individuals and families
› Integrates biomedical, behavioral, and social factors that
may affect individual’s health
what is the basic social unit
family
COMMUNITY MEDICINE
- concerned for a population or a group of people
Community medicinde focuses on
epidemiology, screening, environmental health,
and others
● It focuses on:
› Health of community
› Concern with the promotion of health
› Prevention of disease and disability
› Rehabilitation through collective social action
similarities of Fam and com med
- both clinical and public
- RHU and OPD
- educate public on health education
- public health activities under the city health officer
is able to see patient in the context of
family, community, and society
› Family physician
addresses peoples issues and at
the same is able to see the situation in the context of the
family and individual
Community physician
PATHWAYS FOR SPECIALIZATION IN FAMILY
MEDICINE
- Traditional or Conventional Hospital-based Training- 3yrs
- Innovatice Practice based training- 4 -5yrs
All doctors are expected to be
Five- Star Physicians
distinct attitudes, skills, and knowledge
that qualify them to provide continuing and comprehensive
medical care, health maintenance, and preventive services
Five- Star Physicians
Five- Star Physicians are
- Educator
- Counselor
- Manager
- Social mobilizer
- Researcher
what is the scope of family medicine
scope of family medicine encompasses all ages, both
genders, each organ system, and every disease entity.
focus of family physician
● Individual (patient-centered)
● Family (family-focused)
● Community (community-oriented)
- analyze family pyschodynamics
- screem
- apgar
- family map
Identifying problems in the family that affects the patient
should also be addressed to have a better health
Counselor
- researcher, decision making is based on evidence
- appraise medical literature
- evidence based
Researcher
Empowerment of patients and families through:
- Health education and lifestyle modification
- Health promotion and disease prevention
- Early diagnosis and treatment
- Disability limitation, rehabilitation, and palliation
education
make links and conncections - first contact last out should be - provide care womb to tomb - Refer cases appropriately to coordinate
Manager
› Lead and actively participate in health policy-making
› Advocate patients’ rights and safety
› Mobilize communities towards worthy projects
Social mobilizer
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Subjective
Objective
Assesment
Plan
THE JOY OF FAMILY PRACTICE
- patients share there trust and
- provide better health care
the center of 5 star physician
Health care provider
types of family structure
- Nuclear family
- extended fam
- blended fam
- single parent
- communal fam
- basic unit of fam
- married fam with children
- married fam no children
- widow/divorced and with children
Nuclear Family
Includes 3 generations
a. Family of procreation - parents and children
b. Family of origin - grandparents
› Could be unilaterally or bilaterally extended
one other memeber of the family
Extended Family
› pertain to a
› One or both parents have had a previous marriage
and possibly children from that marriage
› Includes step-parents and step-children brought
about by annulment, separation, and remarriage
Blended family
result from the loss of a spouse or death,
divorce, and separation
› May result from out-of-wedlock birth of a child or from
adoption
› May result from one parent working outside the
Philippines
Single parent family
of individuals which re formed for specific
ideological or societal purposes
› May not be related
› Share common resources and living arrangements
Communal family