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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author | Donovan Casas Patiño Edgar Jarillo Soto Alejandra Rodríguez Torres |
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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 |
spellingShingle | Donovan Casas Patiño Edgar Jarillo Soto Alejandra Rodríguez Torres Family medicine and practice in the Mexican Social Security Institute Medwave medical practice family medicine structural functionalism |
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 |
title_sort | family medicine and practice in the mexican social security institute |
topic | medical practice family medicine structural functionalism |
url | http://www.medwave.cl/link.cgi/Medwave/Enfoques/SaludFamiliar/5975 |
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