title: Family and community medicine: complementary components of primary health care.
abstract: An integrated practice of family and community medicine can address the problems of primary health care better than can either of these alone. This comprehensive practice will provide a family-oriented service based on epidemiologically defined needs and thus can perform ongoing evaluation of its programs. To become a reality, this requires changes in priorities and budget allocation in the health services as a whole, improvements in manpower training, and the provision of adequate tools for data collection and for epidemiological analysis.
mesh_terms: D002908:Chronic Disease; D003154:Community Medicine / Q000379:methods*; D003266:Continuity of Patient Care; D003933:Diagnosis; D005194:Family Practice / Q000379:methods*; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D011314:Preventive Health Services; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000379:methods*