Parkinson’s disease ( PD), a chronic degenerative disease of the centralnervous system and aggravating gradually with the progression of disease,
may cause disability and affect patients’ quality of life ( QOL) seriously.The
common treatments can only improve symptoms but can rarely stop the disease
progresses, let alone cure. Early diagnosis and nerve neuroprotective treatment
can delay disease progression and control patients’ symptoms, but it is difficult
to do early diagnoses in a wide range due to lack of specialists and high costs
of new diagnostic technology. Community doctors can play an important role
in PD early diagnosis due to their enormous quantity and their unique work
nature. Strengthening community doctors’ awareness of PD early diagnosis,
fully mobilizing their enthusiasm, exploiting their advantages, participating in
PD early screening and diagnosis will be in favor of PD patients’ early protective
treatment and improve their QOL.