33. Family and health: family impact on individual health, family health, general practitioner as family physician

Family and health. Family impact on individual health. Family health. General practitioner as a family physician

Role of GP as a family physician.

• General Practical is a Medical Doctor who treats acute and chronic illnesses.
• Providing preventative care and health education to patients.
• Role of GP varies among countries
• Urban areas of development tend to be narrower as GP focus on care of chronic health problems and treating acute non- life threatening conditions
• identify risk factors, should be the family doctor, is not „specialized“,
• role: health promotion, disease prevention, care for individual and community, closer community,

Influences on health:

• promotive or negative effect on health
• social factors, family background:
• Psycho-social factors of family: occupation, nutrition, drug, alcohol, smoke.., sport
• Family structure: father, mother and biological children, single parents, step families (two different families come together), relation btw the members, education, occupation, sex, age,
• Housing: access, heating, rooms, pets etc
• Financial: enough money for food, shopping, free time?
• Interrelation in family: btw. children, parents, parents-children, others, who has authority, introverted or extroverted,

Promotion and prevention in the family:

• Promotion enable people to increase control over and improve their health
• Prevention is an active approach which reduces the likelihood that a disease or disorder will affect an individual.
• Having promotion and prevention family programs are more likely to be affective, as often people listen to their loved ones.
• Family members will encourage each other and certain positive changes in their life style may become a habit, and reduce the risk of certain diseases and conditions