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Family Issues in Health Care

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Caring for families remains one of the defining characteristics of family medicine. From the change in our discipline’s name from general practice to family practice in the 1960s, family-centered care has been central to clinical practice in family medicine. Over the past decade, the role of the family in health care has evolved with the patient’s natural support system becoming increasingly important in the era of health-care reform.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Family Medicine, School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA

    Thomas L. Campbell

  2. Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Rochester School of Medicine, 777 South Clinton Avenue, 14620, Rochester, NY, USA

    Susan H. McDaniel

  3. Case Western Reserve School of Medicine, 44106, Cleveland, OH, USA

    Kathy Cole-Kelly

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Family Medicine, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, USA

    Paul M. Paulman

  2. Department of Family and Community Medicine, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, Virginia, USA

    Robert B. Taylor

  3. Department of Family Medicine, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, USA

    Audrey A. Paulman

  4. Department of Family Medicine, Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, Nebraska, USA

    Laeth S. Nasir

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Campbell, T.L., McDaniel, S.H., Cole-Kelly, K. (2017). Family Issues in Health Care. In: Paulman, P., Taylor, R., Paulman, A., Nasir, L. (eds) Family Medicine. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04414-9_4

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