Chapter 3 Social Work in primary care settings

The IMO acknowledges that access is a key requirement of primary care.financial and geographic ability to obtain primary health care there is no way to fulfill the objectives of prevention and early intervention ( Donaldson et al., 1996:113). The five main attributes of high quality primary care,biomedical and social sciences,occasional diagnostic ambiguity. Primary care also considers physical and mental health together. Primary care provides opportunities to promote health and prevent disease. Primary health utilize computerized information systems to facilitate quality practice in multiple ways (Donaldson et al.,1996:80-81,88).

People with mental health problems tend to avoid the fact that they have mental issues, o they sick help from a primary care physician,more then from a mental health specialist.(page 103).
For some group of people seeking help psychological distress from a mental health professional is unacceptable.Therefore a problem arises when the client doesn't receive the proper care. This my lead to depression.(Katon and Schulberg,1992). Mechanic (1994) has made a strong case for integrating mental health care into primary medical care. A special version of the DSM- IV has been adapted for primary care( American Psychiatric Association, 1995) and provides a kind of algorithm or path system for simplifying.