34^th World Neonatal, Pediatric and Family Medicine Conference

Family Medicine and Nourishment

Family medicine (FM),family practice (FP) is a combined health care facility for people of all ages, generally we named them as family physician or family doctor in other places often called as general practice or General Practice Doctor (GP) .this highlights the roots of the family. It is a division of primary care that provides advanced and better health care for the individual and family across all ages, genders, diseases, and parts of the body. Family physicians are often known as primary care physicians. It is based on knowledge of patient in the contact of family and the community, maintaining disease prevention and health promotion. According to the World Organization of Family Doctors (WONCA), the aim of family medicine is to provide better health like personal, mental behavioral etc. . In the advanced world of health care, one thing remains constant family physicians ,treating the whole person. Family medicine's is an ongoing, personal patient-physician relationship focusing on  better health and care Unlike other that are limited to a particular organ or disease,

the general function of medicine fulfilled in 1969, which suffered with increasing subspecialization after World War II. Since, the specialty has delivered on its promise to change the decline of general medicine and provide personal, frontal medical care to people of all regions of the United States..

Family medicine deliver a wide range of acute, chronic, and preventive medical care services to patients with patient-centered medical home also provides routine check-ups, immunization ,health-risk assessments, screening tests, preventive care and counseling on maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Family physicians also manage chronic illness, from heart disease, diabetes, stroke, hypertension, cancer, and asthma etc. they also provide ongoing, personal care for the most serious health problems.