title: [Family doctor-based health care].
abstract: The idea of family doctor-based health care corresponds to a social necessity for economical health care and a basic requirement for family doctors. However, this request is turned into the opposite by the legal description of a "particularly qualified family doctor". Economic interests dominate, dissect the family doctor level and influence long-standing family doctor-patient relationships and put the performance of social goals into question. Against that, the Family Doctor Association is setting the concept for family doctor-based integrated care, which also places quality demands, but does not exclude physicians basically or by selection of the compulsory health insurance fund.
authors.affiliation: Weinkellerstrasse 20, 09337 Hohenstein-Ernstthal. HBFSturm@aol.com
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Sturm
mesh_terms: D002309:Cardiology / Q000191:economics / Q000639:trends*; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis / Q000191:economics / Q000639:trends; D005194:Family Practice / Q000191:economics / Q000639:trends*; D005544:Forecasting; D020793:Gatekeeping / Q000191:economics / Q000639:trends*; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D009313:National Health Programs / Q000191:economics / Q000639:trends; D010348:Patient Care Team / Q000191:economics / Q000639:trends; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D012017:Referral and Consultation / Q000191:economics / Q000639:trends*