[Municipal practitioner: a new concept and a new function for the primary care practitioner].
Among the various initiatives to endow Geneva of a health system with intermediate structures between practitioners and hospitals, numerous proposals were made, but all of them are omitting the fact that the doctor, a central element of such a system, could be also too much or too few decentralized. In this prospect, the concept of "municipal doctor" was developed. It is described in the context of a global municipal project to develop the social multi-generation link within the framework of a complete revision of the center of the village.
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Institut de médecine sociale et préventive, Département de santé et médecine communautaire, Faculté de médecine de Genève, 1211 Genève. motamed@bluewin.ch
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D003153:Community Health Services; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D010821:Physicians, Family; D013557:Switzerland