The Handbook of Family Medicine is a practical guide for general practitioners, health care workers and medical students practising family medicine in South Africa.

It focuses on the issues affecting family medicine in South Africa, including healthcare and consultation, management, communication, disease prevention, integrative medicine, health promotion and ethical issues.

The Handbook of Family Medicine provides unique insight into family medicine in an African context, addressing such issues as traditional health systems and beliefs and medical practice in under-resourced and rural areas.

The recognition of family medicine as a specialty by the Health Professions Council has had major implications for the training of
family physicians, explored in this third edition of the Handbook. Topics covered include the processes of care and consultation, communication, management, disease prevention, health promotion and ethical issues in family medicin e.

Features

• A chapter on organisational and management principles
• An approach to assessing common symptoms
• A chapter on integrative medicine addressing the relationship between allopathic and alternative or traditional medicine
• Updates on legislation and health statistics