[The medical sociological characteristics of the general practitioner activities]

The medical sociological study involving the general practitioners of the primary medical sanitary health care system of the city of Samara was carried out. The respondents provided their opinions related to the prospects of developing health promotion and disease prevention in the primary health care system, the health management problems and the actual procedures of interaction with patients dealing with health promotion by means of primary and secondary prevention. The general practitioners bear the major duty on the implementation of preventive activities targeted to the attached population since they have more potential possibilities to perform a wide list of preventive and informational educational actions immediately on the level of a particular household. The analysis of ten preventive priorities included into the recommendations given to the patients determined that the general practitioners incompletely enable just the measures of primary prevention concerning the diet improvement, the body mass decreasing, the optimal physical activity, the bad habits refusal and show marked preference to secondary prevention.