[Role of family practice in prevention of ischemic heart disease].

Family medicine as a system of primary medical care delivery to man and his family can become under conditions of this country a mainstay of a successful realization of preventive strategies for chronic noninfectious diseases, and, in the first place, for ischemic heart disease. The article presents a project of a simplified scheme of actions for a family physician to carry on a prophylactic work among the population of his sector community. The stages the above scheme involves are as follows: assessment of an individual and general populational risk, dividing of the population into main groups of risk, implementation of measures designed to carry on a program of intervention intended for each group of the population with special reference to individual traits.