The Role of the General Practitioners in Aging Society
- VernacularTitle:论人口老龄化社会中全科医生的作用
- Author:
Qingyan SI
;
Shifu CHEN
;
Hongwei PAN
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Aging Society;
General Practitioner;
Elderly;
Community Health Institutions
- From:
Chinese Medical Ethics
2014;(2):197-199
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
China has entered the aging society , in urban communities and rural grassroots their are still many older people lack of health insurance , elderly patients with chronic diseases become the most difficult people to see a doctor, this needs to train more general practitioners to solve these problems .From a macroscopical view , general practitioners can bring substantial economic benefits and broad social benefits .From a microscopic view , they also can make effective use of family medical resources , bring convenient for old people going to a doctor and carry out an important role of health education .Improving the General Practitioner -Elderlyservice mode , the govern-ment needs to further improve the elderly medical service system and security system , vigorously promote grass -roots community health service institutions of medical conditions , develop specialized general medical personnel ac-cording to the needs of the elderly , implement contractual service relationships between general practitioners and the elderly.
