Family medicine and primary care

Integrating family medicine and pharmacy to advance primary care therapeutics.

The prevalence of suboptimal prescribing of medications is well documented. Patients are often undertreated or not offered therapeutic treatments that are likely to confer benefit. As a result, drug-related hospital admissions are common and often preventable. Improvements to the health-care system are clearly needed in order to maximize the benefits that can be derived from medications. Many c...

Reflections on Primary Health Care and Family Medicine in Botswana

Copyright: © 2014. The Authors. Licensee: AOSIS OpenJournals. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License. Primary Care should be the ‘central function and main focus of a country’s health system‘.1 The Ouagadougu Declaration similarly states that the vehicle for achieving the Millennium Development Goals and addressing the health of African nations is Primary Health Ca...

Family medicine internship training: importance for Hong Kong's primary care.

Over recent years, the Hong Kong SAR Government has realised the importance of primary care in the provision of cost-effective quality health care, as is evident from its latest health care reform document “Your Health, Your Life”.1 This is in line with “Primary Health Care, Now More Than Ever”, the World Health Organization’s 2008 annual report2 that emphasises the importance of primary care i...

Family medicine in Cuba: community-oriented primary care and complementary and alternative medicine.

Family physicians in Cuba and the United States operate within very different health systems. Cuba's health system is notable for achieving developed country health outcomes despite a developing country economy. The authors of this study traveled to Cuba and reviewed the literature to investigate which practices of Cuban family physicians might be applicable for US family physicians wishing to ...

Family medicine hospital care.