Improving the general practitioner for better health

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...

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...

The general practitioner and community health education.

General practitioner training needs for child health surveillance.

A postal questionnaire was sent to 136 Hackney general practitioners inquiring about their plans for child health surveillance. A total of 112 responded and detailed their training needs, both practical and theoretical. Ninety one responders were providing or planning to provide surveillance. Responders were eager for further training particularly in premature baby follow up, mental handicap, s...

White coat hypertension: improving the patient–health care practitioner relationship

White coat hypertension is characterized by the variability of a patient's blood pressure measurements between the physician's office and the patient's home environment. A patient with white coat hypertension has high blood pressure levels in the physician's office and normal blood pressure levels in their typical environment. This condition is likely caused by the patient's anxiety within the ...