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Depressive and anxiety disorders should be in coordinated care. Doctors will get a tool to help diagnose and determine treatment

MedExpress Team

Piotr Wójcik

Published Dec. 15, 2023 08:57

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Public support for health care facilities in underinvested areas with the greatest needs, including diabetology, oncology or coordinated care, and the reorganization of the psychiatric care system are among the recommendations developed during the Health Care Forum, held as part of the Economic Forum in Karpacz. According to experts, primary care physicians who encounter their patients' problems on a daily basis should have tools to help them recognize depression or anxiety, among other conditions.

- There is no doubt in my mind that the absolute flagship and strategic direction of the health care system should be to increase comprehensiveness of care and coordination. I understand comprehensiveness as the ability to fully secure a patient's needs in one place or by one provider. The patient is tired of going from office to office and from facility to facility in search of a plan for diagnosis, treatment and care," said Dr. Malgorzata Galazka-Sobotka, director of the Institute for Healthcare Management at Lazarski University, during a conference summarizing the conclusions of the Health Care Forum after a quarter.

One of the important demands relate...

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