Health, work and the general practitioner

The general practitioner and community health education.

General practitioner obstetrics: does risk prediction work?

The effectiveness of antenatal risk prediction based on maternal characteristics at booking was examined among 5730 pregnant women booked in an integrated general practitioner obstetric unit over a seven-year period. High rates of transfer to consultant care were found especially for nulliparae. Apart from parity, maternal factors associated with transfer before labour were weight, smoking and ...

Mental Health Guides for the General Practitioner

The recent lists of specialists published by the Ministry of Health seem to have abolished the psychiatrist and substituted the term "mental health specialist". This is all to the good, but the status given to them by their medical colleagues who distribute merit awards places them at the bottom of the list, while at the top are the neurologists, to whom patients go suffering from "nerves", bec...

Improving the general practitioner for better health.

At the end of this century medica! care system throughout the world are facing major crises and undergoing major reformo All system and health care providers are realizing that there is not enough money anywhere in lhe world to pay for all the new medical techno!ogy. The USA spends approximate!y 1,250 billion US$ annually in medica! care, whereas developing countries such as Brazil, which try t...

Comparison of the work of a nurse practitioner with that of a general practitioner.

The work of a nurse practitioner was compared with that of a general practitioner. Both were equally available to the same patient population over the same period. The nurse practitioner saw a similar age and sex distribution of patients to the doctor but saw different types of problems. More of the patients she saw were for followup of chronic diseases, health advice and screening measures whi...