Family Health-Disease Family Functionality

Abstract Individuals are the basic unit of the social system, the most basic block is the familyof individuals. The family, which is the most natural environment where people can findlove, compassion, close attention and care that are necessary for their physical and mental health, completes important functions in terms of social life. Individuals’ well beingis possible with the healthy functioning that can be in a distribution extending from thewellness to the sickness of each individual. According to the specialists who accept thenormality of family parallel to the family’s health, the healthy family is normal. Defining the problems that prevent the family from performing its functions in a healthy manner is vital for the good planning of the health services to the families. Therefore, theprimary care of family health care services that address health problems with their biopsychosocial dimensions is important to understand whether the families perform their functions in a healthy way in order to carry out the healthy services in a realistic wayand to improve the quality of health services