Table 4 Most important FP/GPs competences in specific areas of HP&DP.
Areas of competences. Main tasks of FP/GPs within the area | Sub-areas of competences | Most important competences |
|---|---|---|
Area I: Educational Task: Health promotion | 1. Child and maternal health | (1) providing continuous care in antenatal, perinatal, early and late childhood; (2) facilitating referrals and consultation to higher level services for complex pregnancies; (3) family planning; (4) running monitoring programmes |
| Â | 2. Lifestyle | (1) planning and implementation of individual and group educational activities alone and in collaboration with practice team members and other specialized services |
| Â | 3. Environment | (1) identifying abnormalities in the family structure and functioning; (2) cooperating with different entities with a stake in health care in maintaining and protecting a healthy environment |
Area II: Clinical Task: Disease prevention | 1. Screening | (1) organising effective screening in practice; (2) linking screening to treatments available in the health care system |
| Â | 2. Chronic disease management | (1) identifying early stages of chronic diseases (history taking and physical examination); (2) developing and implementing evidence-based strategies in order to prevent complications in chronic diseases; (3) coordinating services provided to patients by specialists and other health care providers; (4) managing co-morbidity, multimorbidity and patient complexity |
| Â | 3. Preventive interventions | (1) identifying individuals at high risk for communicable and non-communicable diseases; (2) providing short-term interventions in addictions; (3) maintaining adequate immunization coverage; (4) counselling for modifying lifestyle/health behaviour; (5) providing referrals to specialists and other services |
Area III: Organisational Task: Provision of services | 1. Information | (1) gathering and retrieving medical information from practice using IT |
| Â | 2. Patient relationship | (1) communicating with individuals; (2) developing and maintaining good relationships with patients and their families; (3) engaging patients in health promotion and disease prevention programmes |
| Â | 3. Local communities | (1) applying community care measures on a local level to prevent diseases; (2) cooperating with professions involved in providing community care |