The functions of the family include raising and supporting, satisfying emotional needs, satisfying reproductive and sexual needs, socialization and economic functions, and giving membership status.

Family health care is the basic principle and service feature of general practice. Because illness and health are closely related to personal life and interpersonal relationships. The relationship between family members and the family itself is of great significance to the treatment and rehabilitation of patients. With the aging of society and the change of disease spectrum, people spend half their time at home, so the value of family has increased.

Extended data:

Family type

1, nuclear family

The nuclear family is the most common type. That is, families composed of parents and their unmarried children, and/or families without children.

Step 2 expand the family

The extended family includes backbone family, joint family and joint backbone family. It mainly exists in families composed of blood relatives, in-laws or adoptive parents for more than two generations.

3. Types of other families

It also includes single-parent families, single families, cohabiting families, group families and gay families.

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