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Family Doctor Week
Body Image
AMA Family Doctor Week (22 to 27 July 2007)
Family Doctor Week focuses attention
on our General Practitioner's role in keeping Australia
healthy. This year the AMA would like to emphasize the fact
that the person commonly referred to as a 'GP' has a very
important role, in family medicine or primary healthcare,
both in urban and rural Australia.
AMA(SA) will launch Family
Doctor Week with a breakfast for any GP member on Monday
23rd July. To book or for further details, please contact
us on (08) 8267 4355 or email AMA(SA).
Topics under focus are:
Youth/Adolescent Health.
The focus will be on encouraging young people to have a
relationship with a GP highlighting issues such as: the
importance of young people knowing they can see a GP on
their own; confidentially; trust and the types of problems
GPs can help with (mental health, peer pressure, safe sex,
drugs etc).
Aged Care. The focus
will be on improving support for GPs who provide services
in aged care residences. We can give you more information
if you are interested. AMA(SA) President, Dr Peter Ford,
has been very involved in this work.
Baby Health. The
focus will be the GP’s role in early formative months,
hearing tests, allergies, immunisations, weight checks,
growth charts etc.
Cradle to Grave. Continuity
of care across the gamut ie GPs provide prenatal to palliative
care.
For further information on specific
activities in your local area, call (08) 8267 4355.
Download the Family Doctor Week Poster
here
Body image
The AMA(SA) recognises how a poor
body image can affect a person’s health. Body dismorphic
disorder (BDD) causes one to perceive their own body in
a distorted way. To look in the mirror, one might “see”
something abnormal, when in fact their body might be perfectly
normal.
Poor body image and BDD affect young
women and are associated with eating disorders. The AMA(SA)
joins the YWCA and other organisations in promoting the
use of positive messages about body size and shape. The
“Be Real” campaign discourages media from perpetuating
unhealthy and unrealistic portrayals of “beautiful”
bodies.

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