Family medicine and practice in the Mexican Social Security Institute

The central ideas of this research paper are related to the practice of family medicine as a specialty. It focuses in its origins, problems, unique characteristics, limitations, scope, management, and processes within the context of primary care of the Mexican Social Security System. This approach w...

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Main Authors: Donovan Casas Patiño, Edgar Jarillo Soto, Alejandra Rodríguez Torres
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Language:English
Published: Medwave Estudios Limitada 2014-06-01
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Online Access:http://www.medwave.cl/link.cgi/Medwave/Enfoques/SaludFamiliar/5975
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description The central ideas of this research paper are related to the practice of family medicine as a specialty. It focuses in its origins, problems, unique characteristics, limitations, scope, management, and processes within the context of primary care of the Mexican Social Security System. This approach was based on a qualitative, hermeneutical study closely related to the Structural Functionalism Theory. Within this framework, medical practice is seen as an equation: Meaning = action + function/structure. This offers an approach to the understanding of reality through surveys and observations in five categories: identity, activity, purpose, values/norms, and power/relationship. The practice of family medicine is defined as a medical act in the Mexican Social Security Institute. This act is limited to a brief encounter and a prescription, which makes it a short, fleeting, medicalized interaction. The result is a negative social imaginary of the physician, the patient and the whole of society. Thus, individuals and society host a negative social imaginary bestowed on doctors and users of the health system.
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spelling doaj.art-686642425de74e0587d2da0a2952e7932022-12-22T01:26:09ZengMedwave Estudios LimitadaMedwave0717-63842014-06-011405e5975e5975Family medicine and practice in the Mexican Social Security InstituteDonovan Casas Patiño0Edgar Jarillo Soto1Alejandra Rodríguez Torres2Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, Centro Universitario Amecameca, México; Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, Centro Universitario Amecameca, MéxicoUniversidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Unidad Académica Xochimilco, MéxicoUniversidad Autónoma del Estado de México, Centro Universitario Amecameca, México; Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, Centro Universitario Amecameca, MéxicoThe central ideas of this research paper are related to the practice of family medicine as a specialty. It focuses in its origins, problems, unique characteristics, limitations, scope, management, and processes within the context of primary care of the Mexican Social Security System. This approach was based on a qualitative, hermeneutical study closely related to the Structural Functionalism Theory. Within this framework, medical practice is seen as an equation: Meaning = action + function/structure. This offers an approach to the understanding of reality through surveys and observations in five categories: identity, activity, purpose, values/norms, and power/relationship. The practice of family medicine is defined as a medical act in the Mexican Social Security Institute. This act is limited to a brief encounter and a prescription, which makes it a short, fleeting, medicalized interaction. The result is a negative social imaginary of the physician, the patient and the whole of society. Thus, individuals and society host a negative social imaginary bestowed on doctors and users of the health system.http://www.medwave.cl/link.cgi/Medwave/Enfoques/SaludFamiliar/5975medical practicefamily medicinestructural functionalism
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title Family medicine and practice in the Mexican Social Security Institute
title_full Family medicine and practice in the Mexican Social Security Institute
title_fullStr Family medicine and practice in the Mexican Social Security Institute
title_full_unstemmed Family medicine and practice in the Mexican Social Security Institute
title_short Family medicine and practice in the Mexican Social Security Institute
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topic medical practice
family medicine
structural functionalism
url http://www.medwave.cl/link.cgi/Medwave/Enfoques/SaludFamiliar/5975
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