PRIMARY HEALTH CARE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE SERVICES PROVIDER
Abstract:
At the conference in Alma-Ata from 1978, it was agreed that primary health care is an essential health care service, based on practical methods and technologies, socially relevant, made to be universally accessible to individuals and families in a community, through their full participation at a cost the community and country may afford and to be maintained at every stage of its development, to support confidence and self-determination. Primary health care is the first level of contact between individuals, families and communities, the country’s health system, trying to harmonize, if possible, the activity in the health field to that of people’s life environment representing the first element of continuous health care. This paper assesses the family doctors’ opinion regarding the place and role of primary care in health care reform in Romania. The results show that there still are difficulties in the primary care, starting from the equipment, excessive bureaucracy, to the doctor-patient relation, but there are efforts in meeting, if possible, the expectations and the needs of the sick people.
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