Introduction
This topic covers the dispensary method: what it is, who carries it out, its types, stages and patient groups, the dispensary institutions (mental health, skin and venereal, oncology) and the indicators used to evaluate it.
Definition
- The dispensary method is an active method of observing the health status of different groups of the population, including groups with health risk.
- Dispensarisation is a complex of medical, social and public actions for active search, active observation and active recovery.
- A dispensary is a specialised medical institution that works with the dispensary method and has a region for observation.
- Who does it: GPs and the medical specialist in the dispensary.
Types of dispensary
- Pulmonary
- Oncology (cancer)
- Psychiatric
- Dermatological / venereological (STDs)
- Transplanted patients
Each department has a different medical establishment and carries out different activities.
Types of dispensary method and patient groups
- Prophylactic: healthy people are observed, aiming at health promotion and protection, e.g. children up to 7 years, pregnant women, sporting people, people working in conditions bad for health.
- Dispensarisation after medical treatment: observation of people who are or were ill (previous history of disease).
- General dispensarisation: observation of the whole population.
Patient groups: the 1st group is healthy people, the 2nd is risk-factor groups, and the 3rd to 5th are the dispensary groups of chronically ill patients.