Performance evaluation of the essential dimensions of the primary health care services in six localities of Bogota–Colombia: a cross-sectional study

Health accessibility refers to the availability of health care services accessible to the community as required. However, the convenience of accessing such services vary throughout regions due to geography. Hence differences in geographic accessibility can be an obstacle to accessing health care. This study characterized the influence of geographic accessibility on primary health care (PHC) in Karawang District. A cross-sectional study was conducted in November 2019 in five sub-districts of Karawang District. Respondents were interviewed using questionnaires to collect geographic (mileage and travel time from respondents’ house to nearest PHC) and transportation (mode of transportation and transportation cost) data. In total, the study involved 513 randomly selected households, of which 11% had far to travel to the PHC, 22% had a long traveling time, and 23% had expensive transportation costs, with motorcycles being the most common means of transport. Therefore, PHCs in several sub-districts in Karawang District are less accessible due to geographic barriers.

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Career commitment and career entrenchment among Primary Health Care workers

Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem ◽

10.1590/0034-7167-2021-0144 ◽

2022 ◽

Vol 75 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Luciano Garcia Lourenção ◽

Jacqueline Flores de Oliveira ◽

Francisco Rosemiro Guimarães Ximenes Neto ◽

Carlos Leonardo Figueiredo Cunha ◽

Sandra Verónica Valenzuela-Suazo ◽

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Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Primary Health Care ◽

Health Care Workers ◽

Health Care Services ◽

Career Commitment ◽

Cross Sectional Study ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Care Services ◽

Primary Health ◽

Care Workers

ABSTRACT Objective: Assess levels of career commitment and career entrenchment among Primary Health Care workers. Methods: This Cross-sectional study addressed 393 workers using the Brazilian versions of the Career Commitment Measure (CCM) and Career Entrenchment Measure (CEM). Results: Levels of Career commitment [75.5-77.5] were higher (p<0.001) than Career Entrenchment [66.7-69.2]. Identity levels [82.7-85.5] were higher (p<0.001) than Investment levels [60.4-65.0]. Career resilience levels [75.1-79.2] were higher (p<0.001) than Emotional costs [69.0-72.1]. Planning levels [64.2-67.1] were lower (p<0.001) than levels of limitedness of career alternatives [68.1-71.0]. Conclusion: The highest scores were obtained in Career commitment, showing the workers’ identification and positive relationship with their careers, that is, these workers remain in Primary Health Care services because they identify themselves with their professions.

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Assessment of clients 'satisfaction with primary health care services in Basra City, South of Iraq 2012

International Journal of Research in Pharmaceutical Sciences ◽

10.26452/ijrps.v10i3.1510 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 10 (3) ◽

pp. 2558-2566

Author(s):

Essam Mohammed Abd-Alsaid

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Primary Health Care ◽

Health Care Services ◽

Arabic Language ◽

Cross Sectional Study ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Care Services ◽

Primary Health ◽

Health Directorate ◽

South Of Iraq

Client satisfaction has been defined as the degree of congruency between a client’s expectation of ideal care and his/her perception of the real care receive. In Iraq, there has been a recent concern at the Ministry of Health (MOH) about improving the quality of Primary Health Care (PHC) services being considered the first health “gate” for the community. This study aimed to assess the level of clients’ satisfaction with PHC services in Basra, Iraq, 2012. A cross-sectional study was performed on 12 randomly selected PHC centers from the total eight PHC districts at Basra Health Directorate, where 1200 clients aged 18 years and above were selected systematically. Data was collected via a direct interview with clients using an Arabic language questionnaire. The satisfaction was rated at a scale of 1-5 points, and the data was analyzed using c. The results of the current study revealed that the overall clients’ satisfaction was 90.8%. The highest score for clients’ satisfaction was for nurses’ staff domain of PHC services (91.9%), and the lowest was for waiting for the domain (74.5%). Old age, females, retired and illiterate clients showed significantly the highest overall satisfaction. Clients reported their main dissatisfaction for the availability of the medicines item (53.4%) and the waiting time to see medical staff item (59%). The present study concluded that overall clients’ satisfaction was relatively high, and socio-demographic characteristics played major roles in deciding the extent of clients’ satisfaction.

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Main characteristics of patients of primary health care services in Brazil

Revista de Saúde Pública ◽

10.11606/s1518-8787.2017051007070 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 51 (suppl.2) ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Ione Aquemi Guibu ◽

José Cássio De Moraes ◽

Augusto Afonso Guerra Junior ◽

Ediná Alves Costa ◽

Francisco de Assis Acurcio ◽

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Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Primary Health Care ◽

Health Care Services ◽

Care Service ◽

Health Care Service ◽

Health Condition ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Care Services ◽

Primary Health ◽

Primary Health Care Services

OBJECTIVE: To characterize patients of primary health care services according to demographic and socioeconomic aspects, habits and lifestyle, health condition, and demand for health services and medicines. METHODS: This study is part of the Pesquisa Nacional sobre Acesso, Utilização e Promoção do Uso Racional de Medicamentos – Serviços (PNAUM – National Survey on Access, Use and Promotion of Rational Use of Medicines – Services), a cross-sectional study carried out between 2014 and 2015. Interviews were conducted with patients over the age of 17 years, with a standardized questionnaire, in primary health care services of a representative sample of cities, stratified by regions of Brazil. The analysis was performed for complex samples and weighted according to the population size of each region. RESULTS: A total of 8,676 patients were interviewed, being 75.8% women, most of them aged from 18 to 39 years; 24.2% men, most of them aged from 40 to 59 years; 53.7% with elementary school; 50.5% reported to be of mixed race ethnicity, 39.7%, white, and 7.8%, black. Half of patients were classified as class C and 24.8% received the Bolsa Familia benefit. Only 9.8% had health insurance, with higher proportion in the South and lower in the North and Midwest. The proportion of men who consumed alcohol was higher than among women, as well as smokers. The self-assessment of health showed that 57% believed it to be very good or good, with lower proportion in the Northeast. The prevalence of chronic diseases/conditions, such as hypertension (38.6%), dyslipidemia (22.7%), arthritis/rheumatism (19.4%), depression (18.5%), diabetes (13.6%), and others are higher in these patients them among the general population. Medicines were predominantly sought in the health care service or in pharmacies of the Brazilian Unified Health System. CONCLUSIONS: It was possible to characterize the profile of patients of Primary Health Care, but the originality of the research and its national scope hinders the comparison of results with official data or other articles

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