Community study of the development of primary health care in the agricultural district, Japan. The educational practice and its problems of preventive medicine to the medical students.
10.2185/jjrm.35.875
- VernacularTitle:農村におけるプライマリ・ヘルスケアに関する研究 医学生に対する予防医学教育の実践と課題
- Author:
Kenji ABE
;
Tetsuhito FUKUSHIMA
;
Yoneatsu OSAKI
;
Akio NAKAGAWA
;
Nobuo YOSHIDA
;
Yosuke YAMANE
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- From:Journal of the Japanese Association of Rural Medicine
1987;35(5):875-880
- CountryJapan
- Language:Japanese
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Abstract:
Recently, while the medical technology developed remarkably on the one hand, the soscial need for preventive medicine largely increased on the other. In Japan, it is an urgent problem of the medical education how to create effective methodology and technology of the preventive medicine that can attract students who generally prefer to become professionals in clinical medicine.
Since 1978 we have practiced an educational programme in which each student looks after one family picked up from the agricultural district for one year, caring for the health of the family members and helping them out of health problems, if there are any. In this way students can learn primary health care and community health of their own will.
Compared with the traditional method, this method is effective in making the students understand with real interest the meanings of comprehensive primary health care through concerning themselves in the health care of a family as “a socio-economical-psycho-complex”.
