Primary Health Care and Family Medicine

Abstract

Primary Care (Personal Care) as a part of Primary Health Care (Community-oriented Primary Care) can improve health. Family Medicine as a specialty of Primary Care can play an important role in delivering Community-oriented Primary Care. Although the goal of developing a cadre of family doctors to participate and lead the advance in community-oriented. Primary Care is great, it is achievable. Careful distribution of resources is important. High technology medicine is important but low technology medicine gets the right patient to the right high technology at the right time. Underestimation of the role of the laboratory medicine and the personal in PHC team work should be reconsidered. Follow-up of the new discoveries of the techniques and procedures in medical technology fields for diagnosis, and their application must be undertaken more serious.