Ventres, William B.Stone, Leslie A.Shah, RupalCarter, TamalaGusoff, Geoffrey M.Liaw, WinstonNguyen, Bich-MayRachelson, Joanna V.Scott, Mary AliceSchiff-Elfalan, Teresa L.Yamada, SeijiLike, Robert C.Zoppi, KathleenCatinella, A. PeterFrankel, Richard M.Prasad, Shailendra2024-07-152024-07-152024-04-12Ventres WB, Stone LA, Shah R, et al. Storylines of family medicine II: foundational building blocks-context, community and health. Fam Med Community Health. 2024;12(Suppl 3):e002789. Published 2024 Apr 12. doi:10.1136/fmch-2024-002789https://hdl.handle.net/1805/42226Storylines of Family Medicine is a 12-part series of thematically linked mini-essays with accompanying illustrations that explore the many dimensions of family medicine, as interpreted by individual family physicians and medical educators in the USA and elsewhere around the world. In 'II: foundational building blocks-context, community and health', authors address the following themes: 'Context-grounding family medicine in time, place and being', 'Recentring community', 'Community-oriented primary care', 'Embeddedness in practice', 'The meaning of health', 'Disease, illness and sickness-core concepts', 'The biopsychosocial model', 'The biopsychosocial approach' and 'Family medicine as social medicine.' May readers grasp new implications for medical education and practice in these essays.en-USAttribution-NonCommercial 4.0 InternationalCommunity medicineFamily medicineFamily therapyHealthSocial determinants of healthArticle