Primary health care: what is it and what is it not? Views of teaching faculty at an undergraduate medical college in Pakistan/Soins de sante primaires: comparaison entre les concepts et les croyances du corps enseignant dans une faculte de medecine de premier cycle au Pakistan
[TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII.] Over 30 years after the Alma-Ata declaration on primary health care in 1978 there are still misconceptions about the basic concept of primary health care. This study aimed to investigate the knowledge and opinions about various aspects of primary health care and its...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Eastern Mediterranean health journal 2012-03, Vol.18 (3), p.261 |
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Zusammenfassung: | [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII.] Over 30 years after the Alma-Ata declaration on primary health care in 1978 there are still misconceptions about the basic concept of primary health care. This study aimed to investigate the knowledge and opinions about various aspects of primary health care and its appropriate implementation among the teaching faculty at Shifa College of Medicine in Islamabad, Pakistan. A structured questionnaire was answered by 70 physicians present at the end of the month seminar. Two-thirds of the doctors (67.1%) believed that primary health care involved only basic health care for common illnesses. Few respondents suggested that community-oriented programmes (4.3%), maternal and child health (2.9%), screening (1.0%) or treatment of noncommunicable diseases (2.9%) should be components of primary care. The concepts to primary health care as defined at Alma-Ata in 1978 were not well understood by teaching faculty from the basic and clinical health sciences in this medical college. Trente ans apres la Declaration d'Alma-Ata sur les soins de sante primaires en 1978, des idees erronees subsistent encore au sujet du concept de base des soins de sante primaires. La presente etude avait pour objectif d'evaluer les connaissances et les opinions du corps enseignant de la faculte de medecine de Shifa, a Islamabad (Pakistan), sur differents aspects des soins de sante primaires et leur mise en ceuvre appropriee. Un questionnaire structure a ete rempli par 70 medecins presents au seminaire de fin de mois. Deux tiers des medecins (67,1 %) pensaient que les soins de sante primaires comprenaient uniquement les soins de sante de base des affections les plus communes. Peu de repondants ont indique que les programmes communautaires (4,3 %), la sante de la mere et de l'enfant (2,9 %), le depistage (1,0 %) ou le traitement des maladies non transmissibles (2,9 %) devaient etre des composantes des soins primaires. Les concepts de soins de sante primaires tels que definis a Alma-Ata en 1978 n'ont pas ete bien compris par les enseignants en sciences fondamentales et en sciences cliniques de la sante de cette faculte de medecine. |
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ISSN: | 1020-3397 1020-3397 |