dc.creator | Flores, Jorge Ramírez | |
dc.creator | Rivera, Pablo | |
dc.creator | Becerra, Carlos | |
dc.creator | Peña, Sebastián | |
dc.creator | Arteaga, Óscar | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-03-18T11:54:23Z | |
dc.date.available | 2019-03-18T11:54:23Z | |
dc.date.created | 2019-03-18T11:54:23Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2016 | |
dc.identifier | Revista Medica de Chile, Volumen 144, Issue 4, 2018, Pages 426-433 | |
dc.identifier | 07176163 | |
dc.identifier | 00349887 | |
dc.identifier | 10.4067/S0034-98872016000400002 | |
dc.identifier | https://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/166824 | |
dc.description.abstract | © 2016, Sociedad Medica de Santiago. All Rights Reserved. Background: Rural areas have scarce medical resources. Initiatives to address this situation in Latin America exist, but have been poorly evaluated. The Chilean Rural Practitioner Program, a policy of recruitment and retention of physicians in rural areas, has been stable over time. Aim: To examine how physicians who participate in this program evaluate it. Material and Methods: Nationally representative cross sectional study. Physicians were chosen to respond online or by telephone a specially designed questionnaire about the Program. Results: 202 participants answered (response rate of 60%). The overall experience was evaluated with 5.75 points (in a 1 to 7 scale). Participants gave the best scores to climatic conditions and economic income, and rated infrastructure, human resources and workload the worst. The evaluation of social relationships at the destination place was the only condition associated significantly with the o | |
dc.language | en | |
dc.publisher | Sociedad Medica de Santiago | |
dc.rights | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/cl/ | |
dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Chile | |
dc.source | Revista Medica de Chile | |
dc.subject | Health policy | |
dc.subject | National health programs | |
dc.subject | Primary health care | |
dc.subject | Rural health services | |
dc.title | Assessment of the Chilean rural practitioner program by its participating physicians Evaluación de la experiencia de participantes en estrategia de dotación de médicos generales en zonas rurales | |
dc.type | Artículos de revistas | |