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Integration and continuity of healthcare for the person with schizophrenia and ...

The global burden of schizophrenia is a challenge for patients, families, and society; the current compartmentalization of healthcare and the stigma associated with the disease contribute to insufficient responses. This article emphasizes the importance of person-centered care. It seeks, through reflection and debate, to make family doctors aware of the problems associated with the diagnosis of schizophrenia, a...

The Stacey Diagram: a formative exercise in family medicine

Background: Ralph Stacey designed the Stacey diagram in 1995 to help in the analysis of decision-making in situations with different degrees of information, complexity, and uncertainty in management and leadership within organizations. British General Practitioners adapted this model to the medical field, with a focus on more complex and uncertain situations. This article describes a training exercise using the...

Serviço Nacional de Saúde: património de todos: primeiro congresso após 34 anos...

Serviço Nacional de Saúde : património de todos : primeiro congresso após 34 an...

Desvantagem socio-económica, etnicidade e consumo de álcool na adolescência

O presente estudo visa compreender e caracterizar o consumo de álcool nos adolescentes migrantes, através da perspectiva dos jovens face aos factores ligados à protecção e ao risco e aos cenários que envolvem o adolescente. Foi utilizada uma metodologia qualitativa, os grupos focais ou grupos de discussão centrados num tema, o consumo de álcool, relacionando-o com os “cenários” do adolescente e com os comportam...

Desvantagem socio-económica, etnicidade e consumo de álcool na adolescência

O presente estudo visa compreender e caracterizar o consumo de álcool nos adolescentes migrantes, através da perspectiva dos jovens face aos factores ligados à protecção e ao risco e aos cenários que envolvem o adolescente. Foi utilizada uma metodologia qualitativa, os grupos focais ou grupos de discussão centrados num tema, o consumo de álcool, relacionando-o com os “cenários” do adolescente e com os comportam...

Doctor-patient communication: A proposal for continuous improvement in clinical...

Introduction: Interpersonal communication skills are fundamental to all clinical practice, but this is especially true in relationshipbased disciplines such as family medicine. Training in communication skills is an integral part of medical education especially during specialty training. Objectives: To develop and test a model for the analysis and training of communication skills in clinical practice based on b...

Isolation of Hierridin B from a culturable Cyanobium sp. strain isolated from t...

Cyanobacteria are a genetically diverse group of phototrophic prokaryotes. On a secondary metabolite perspective, however, filamentous and benthic forms have been the major sources of compounds isolated from these organisms. Nevertheless, unicellular free-living, planktonic cyanobacteria also contain enzymatic machinery for secondary metabolite biosynthesis.

The consultation in 7 steps: Performance and review of consultations in Family ...

This article presents a model to practice and to critical analysis of consultations in general practice/family medicine. It is a proposal to be adapted to each particular clinical situation. It begun to be developed in 2005 as a small exercise to support training in consultation skills for the family medicine vocational trainees / residents in the Cascais Health Centre, in Portugal. This exercise was further de...

The length of the consultation in primary care is not an indicator of quality: ...