Patient care in barbadian family practice
West Indian med. j
; West Indian med. j;36(1): 8-13, Mar. 1987. tab
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RESUMO
A survey was conducted in Barbados to determine the various practices the and services the family physuicians in government and private practice provided for the population. Nineteen physicians, seven of whom worked in government general medical clinics, recorded information on the practice procedures they used at 7,303 encounters over a four-week period. The results demonstrated the profile of attndance by age and sex, with more attendances in the reproductive (44.0%) and childhood (24.2%) years. People of the lower socio-economic classes attended in large numbers both the government (83,9%) and private facilities (66,7%). Prescribing was the most frequently used procedure (75.7%), buth the number of prescriptions written per doctor was much less than reported from developed countries. Only 13% of prescriptions were for long-term medication. Counselling occurred in 40% of encounters, buth only 7.1% were what physicians perceived as psycho-therapeutic care. Other services privided included minor operative procedures (16.2%), and certification (9.4%)
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Coleções:
01-internacional
Base de dados:
LILACS
Assunto principal:
Atenção à Saúde
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Medicina de Família e Comunidade
Aspecto:
Determinantes_sociais_saude
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Equity_inequality
Limite:
Adolescent
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Adult
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Aged
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Child
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Child, preschool
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Humans
País/Região como assunto:
Barbados
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Idioma:
En
Revista:
West Indian med. j
Assunto da revista:
MEDICINA
Ano de publicação:
1987
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de publicação:
Jamaica