[Utilization of family practice by unemployed persons. Results of a survey of 250 family and primary care physicians].
The results of a questionnaire-based poll of 25 general practitioners from five German Länder show that providing medical care to the jobless confronts the family doctor with specific personal and health problems requiring more treatment time and more comprehensive medication--including antidepressants and tranquilizers--than age-matched working patients. Most practitioners had a skeptical attitude towards cooperation with institutions offering options to the jobless. Family doctors are faced with the dilemma of not being able to delegate the resolution of the patients' personal problems to others, while having no opportunity of obtaining remuneration from health insurance carriers for the time they spend counseling these patients.
Kruse
A
A
Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Institut für Gerontologie.
Schmitt
E
E
D005194:Family Practice / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005858:Germany / Q000453:epidemiology; D006306:Health Surveys; D006801:Humans; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011602:Psychophysiologic Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology; D013001:Somatoform Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology; D014478:Unemployment / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014600:Utilization Review