Medical homes have been established in Wallonia and Brussels for around forty years. These structures have, almost from the start, included social workers.
“The model of medical homes was created by doctors who wanted to get out of the hierarchical medical logic of the hospital world,” explains Stefania Marsella, project manager at the Federation of medical homes in Belgium. To date, 123 structures of this type are located in French-speaking Belgium. They are integrated into the neighborhoods, on the front line, and collaborate with existing local structures such as social services, local authorities, schools … not only on the absence of disease, but also on the determinants of health ”, specifies the project manager. In fact, to respond to these issues, medical homes were immediately created in a multidisciplinary approach with four basic professions: general practitioners, nurses, physiotherapists and…
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