TY - SER AU - Leopando,Zorayda AU - Takemura,Yousuke AU - Temple-Smith,Meredith ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - Asia Pacific Family Medicine SN - 1447-056X CY - London PB - BioMed Central, Imprint: BioMed Central. KW - Medicine KW - General practice (Medicine) KW - Primary care (Medicine) KW - Medicine & Public Health KW - General Practice / Family Medicine KW - Primary Care Medicine N2 - Asia Pacific Family Medicine is an open access journal that provides a forum for the dissemination of high quality regional research, and aims to enhance the standards of family medicine by focusing on best practice. Family medicine embraces the disciplines of primary care, general practice and community medicine. It is a discipline that emphasizes comprehensive and continuous care of referred patients, and for non-referred, undifferentiated problems irrespective of patient age, gender or ethnicity and is usually centred within the community but may embrace some hospital settings. Medical care in this environment addresses the bio-psycho-social nature of illness, providing holistic care for the total patient irrespective of their problem. The journal welcomes practical, relevant articles covering the broad range of interests within the field of family medicine UR - http://link.springer.com/journal/12930 ER -