The important role of family doctor
Nowadays many families do treatment only to one doctor for the whole family members. Family doctor can improve the health of family members with low cost.
Based on the American Board of FP, 1969, the family doctor is the doctor who gave the first-level health knowledge required to complete all family members.
Meanwhile, understanding the family doctor from the Singapore College of GP, 1987, is a doctor who provides personal health knowledge, level 1, a comprehensive and sustainable to the patient in a family environment, community, and environment.
Most family in Europe or America are already using the family doctor to consult, and even some health insurance using the recommendations for dealing with the family doctor of their complaints.
If the patient has a disease or complain to a particular disease, the family doctor can find out the factors with less cost. A disease can be associated with the social conditions of the environment of these patients. Every family who has a family doctor will automatically improve public health.
This family doctor may be in the doctor who visited the homes of patients, or patients who consult to the practice.
Promotion is an act that is more giving information also educate about health, including disease problems, so that families know the dangers of the disease and how to avoid and overcome them, including the prevent action. All that aims to improve the health status of family members.
Family doctor is quite different from a private physician. If the family doctor deal with the health of all family members, while private doctors handle only one patient who always consult with the doctor. Anyone can have a family doctor. The advantage is if you have a complaint, then family members can submit complaints to the family doctor.
It is better to have a family doctor which is visiting the home of the patient’s family because the family doctor can find out the conditions and circumstances of the patient’s house that might be a factor causing the disease in a family.
Having a family doctor can actually save health care costs. My family doctor can show increased knowledge and healthy behavior so that the level of public health has also increased.
The family is the smallest of the public sphere. To establish a healthy state, it can be started from a healthy society that started from the family.
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