Family Medicine

World Book of Family Medicine – European Edition 2015
Table of Contents
Prologue Mehmet Ungan, Carl Steylaerts 8
1 Patient Empowerment for Patient Self-Management Andrée Rochfort 10
2 Communicating with Patients Michael Jones 13
3 Ethical Problems in Family Medicine Manfred Maier 15
4 Health Consequences of Emotional, Physical and Sexual
Abuse
5 The Role of Family Medicine in Undergraduate Medical
Education
6 Developing National Curricula for the Education and
Training of Family Doctors
Lucy Candib 18
Zekeriya Akturk 21
Jessica Watson 25
7 Transient Illnesses Ignaas Devisch 28
8 Cooperation Across the Interface of Primary and
Secondary Care
Odd Jarle Kvamme 30
9 Complexity and Primary Care Joachim Sturmberg 33
10 Motivational Interviewing in Family Medicine Siggy Rausch 37
11 Quality Circles Adrian Rohrbasser 40
12 Pathology and Minor Surgery in Primary Care Pieter Buis 43
13 Developing Research Capacities in Family Medicine: the
Croatian Experience
14 An International Comparison of the Role of the Family
Doctor in Different Countries
Mladenka Vrcic 46
Donatella Sghedoni 49
15 Tackling Health Inequalities: the Role of Family Medicine William Wong 52
16 Using the Internet to Answer Clinical Questions Harris Lygidakis 56
17 Threats to Patient Safety in Primary Care John Sandars 59
18 Teaching uncertainty Yona Yaphe 61
19 Home Visits: a Medical Necessity or Simply a Service? Paul Van Royen 64
20 Promoting the Health and Well-being of Family Doctors Ulrich Busch 67
21 Prevention and Health Promotion in Clinical Practice Carles Brotons 70
22 Determinants of Multi-morbidity Marjan van den Akker 73
23 When Chronic Care Becomes End-of-Life Care: Bridging
the Gap
24 What is Universal in Primary Care? Challenges for
North/South Co-operation.
Radost Assenova 76
Matie Obazee 79
25 The New Consultation: The Doctor in the Electronic Age Theo Schofield 82
26 How to Deliver a Successful Learning Package for Family
Medicine Trainees?
27 The Integration of Mental Health into Primary Care:
International Perspectives
Jaime Correia de Sousa 85
Filippo Zizzo 88
28 WONCA and the Cochrane Primary Health Care Field Floris A. van de Laar 91
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