title: [Improvement in the sociomedical support for the urban family under current conditions].
abstract: Medico-demographic processes and socio-hygienic characteristics of the population of a large city, both at an individual and familial levels, as well as territorial characteristics of residence, should be taken into consideration when developing measures for medicosocial care of the population. Analysis of the attitude of 380 city families to the activities, personality, and professional skills of local therapists and pediatricians and to the idea of primary health care rendered by a physician of a general profile demonstrated an increased activity of the families in the "physician-patient" system and confirmed the necessity of improving medicosocial care of a city family, expansion of prophylactic work with the population with due consideration for factors which have an impact on population health.
authors.forename: G I
authors.initials: GI
authors.lastname: Kutsenko
authors.forename: L M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Novikova
mesh_terms: D001294:Attitude to Health; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000592:standards*; D003710:Demography; D005192:Family Health; D006801:Humans; D006920:Hygiene; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009031:Moscow; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000592:standards*; D012961:Sociology; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014505:Urban Population / Q000706:statistics & numerical data