Basic work of specialists of family medicine — prophylaxis

Abstract

The expounded main directions of prevention of infectious and non-infectious diseases in the practice of family doctors. As analyzes of global problems in medicine, in the conditions of transition inwardly XX of century from infectious and non-infectious pathology, the significance of the risk factors of the last factors grew considerably, which is associated with behavioral, environmental and genetic factors, the fight against which requires long-term planning and effective preventive and valeological professional activity of domestic doctors. At the same time, predictive calculations show that if they do not pay adequate attention to these risk factors, their negative impact will be even more pronounced in the future. The functional model of the preventive activity of the family doctor in the center of primary medical aid is developed, which requires its competent training by applying changes in the organizational mechanism of state regulation of this process, where preventive education is aimed at mastering the methods of formation, preservation and strengthening of health of healthy people and primary prevention of the most common in modern society of diseases. An important value in the prophylaxis of widespread uninfectious illnesses of contemporaneity has a healthy way of life, in the formation and observance of the principles of which the doctors of family medicine play a significant role, as shown by the example of their work in the polyclinic of the city of Lviv.