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. 2024 Apr 12;12(Suppl 3):e002789.
doi: 10.1136/fmch-2024-002789.

Storylines of family medicine II: foundational building blocks-context, community and health

William B Ventres  1 , Leslie A Stone  2 , Rupal Shah  3 , Tamala Carter  4 , Geoffrey M Gusoff  5 , Winston Liaw  6 , Bich-May Nguyen  6 , Joanna V Rachelson  7 , Mary Alice Scott  8   9 , Teresa L Schiff-Elfalan  10 , Seiji Yamada  10 , Robert C Like  11 , Kathleen Zoppi  12 , A Peter Catinella  13 , Richard M Frankel  14 , Shailendra Prasad  15
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Storylines of family medicine II: foundational building blocks-context, community and health

William B Ventres et al. Fam Med Community Health. .

Abstract

Storylines of Family Medicine is a 12-part series of thematically linked mini-essays with accompanying illustrations that explore the many dimensions of family medicine, as interpreted by individual family physicians and medical educators in the USA and elsewhere around the world. In 'II: foundational building blocks-context, community and health', authors address the following themes: 'Context-grounding family medicine in time, place and being', 'Recentring community', 'Community-oriented primary care', 'Embeddedness in practice', 'The meaning of health', 'Disease, illness and sickness-core concepts', 'The biopsychosocial model', 'The biopsychosocial approach' and 'Family medicine as social medicine.' May readers grasp new implications for medical education and practice in these essays.

Keywords: Community Medicine; Family Medicine; Family Therapy; Health; Social Determinants of Health.

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: None declared.

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Figure 1
Context: locating, understanding, being, caring.
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Figure 2
Conceptualising community-centric practice. *Community collaborators: community organisers, leaders and organisations **Interdisciplinary care teams: physicians, nurses, social workers, care managers, community health workers and others.
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Clinic structure: moving towards community presence and involvement. Adapted with permission.
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Figure 4
Embeddedness in place and time: Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA. Reproduced with permission.
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Figure 5
Health: an ancestral view this graphic—a Hawaiian petroglyph of four people linking arms—reminds us that ‘health’ is informed as much by ancestral knowledge as by modern medicine. Reproduced with permission.
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Figure 6
Disease versus illness versus sickness.
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The biopsychosocial model.
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The biopsychosocial approach.
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Family Medicine … social medicine.
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