General Practice

The General Practice Department of Shanghai DeltaHealth Cardiovascular Hospital is staffed by a medical and nursing team that includes members with international training and certification in general practice. Combining professional diversity with clinical strength, it is a comprehensive medical specialty oriented toward communities and families, integrating clinical, preventive, and rehabilitation medicine with relevant humanities and social sciences; its scope covers all age groups, genders, organ systems, and types of disease. It advocates a patient-centered approach, uses the family as the unit and the community as the scope, and provides individuals and families with long-term, accountable health-management services. Alongside disease prevention and health management, it provides patients and people at high risk of disease with methods for early diagnosis and intervention, and manages acute and chronic diseases promptly and effectively.