Médecine
MENUPeriodic Health Examinations of the National healthcare insurance: The GPs’point of view Volume 15, issue 1, Janvier 2019
- Key words: prevention, periodic health examination, general practitioners
- DOI : 10.1684/med.2019.387
- Page(s) : 24-7
- Published in: 2019
In France, social security contributors are entitled to a periodic health examination (PHE) carried out at the health examination center (HEC). The PHE is oriented towards prevention whatever pre-existing illnesses, the fight against precariousness and inequalities in access to care. General practitioners (GPs) consider that they frequently intervene in the field of prevention.
According to a quantitative cross-sectional descriptive observational survey by anonymous paper questionnaire, conducted from February to May 2018, among 240 liberal GPs in the Loire district, GPs seem to favour a PHE adapted to a population that they feel should be targeted differently. It would be interesting to better understand this point of view. Better collaboration between MG and HEC before and during the PHE could be envisaged.
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