Keeping the Family in Family Medicine

Keeping the family in family planning

First, the anthropological and demographic literature on fertility in Africa shows that the desire for a family factors heavily in young women's contraceptive choices.2,3 Our own work in Kenya and Malawi provides robust evidence that sexually active young adults use contraception to plan their families.4,5 Furthermore, many young people avoid modern contraceptive methods because they fear it wi...

Keeping it in the family

Have you ever noticed how many biologists end up with other biologists for partners? At almost any social event, most of the biology types are paired off with other biology types and it can be depressingly hard to avoid discussions about subcloning or the price of microscopes. It’s a common phenomenon — doctors and musicians are infamous for marrying their own kind — but it still amazes me just...

The family in the family medicine literature.

BACKGROUND The degree to which the family medicine literature articulates unique family practice approaches and perspectives that are distinct from other primary care specialties has not been well studied. To determine how often a family practice perspective is included in clinical articles in the family medicine literature, we performed a family medicine journal review. METHODS We reviewed 1...

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The family medicine cabinet.

Medicine selection and storage was examined in 130 families. Over 50 per cent were found to be less than adequate. Health education advice helped half the inadequate group to change to adequate. Age and social class were not related to hoarding of prescribed drugs, to initial standards of storage or selection, nor to the likelihood of a response to advice. Those who hoarded medicines but stored...