Asadollah Shams; Mojgan Mosaddegh; Saeed Afrough; Elham Asadi
Volume 9, Issue 7 , December 2012, , Pages 1081-1086
Abstract
Introduction: Nowadays, more than ever we have forgotten that solving health problems depends uponwhat people should do for themselves. Helping people is a vital issue along with intelligent healthservices, against treatment services which make people depended, and are high-cost and less effective.The ...
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Introduction: Nowadays, more than ever we have forgotten that solving health problems depends uponwhat people should do for themselves. Helping people is a vital issue along with intelligent healthservices, against treatment services which make people depended, and are high-cost and less effective.The aim of the present study was to assess the philosophical principles of the prevention in primary healthcare (PHC) and the knowledge and belief of the directors of the health care in this regard.Methods: This was a descriptive-analytical survey. Research tools was a researcher-made questionnaire withthree types of basic, knowledge and attitude questions about 9 philosophical principles of PHC. Validity andreliability were approved by experts and Cronbach’s alpha (84%), repectively. Study population included384 individuals of top, middle and executive managers of Isfahan, Iran Health Institutions in 2002. Student’st-test, analysis of variance (ANOVA) and Pearson’s correlation tests were used.Results: The highest mean knowledge score of the nine philosophical principles of PHC belonged to "loveand motivation" (98.3 ± 41.1) and the lowest philosophical dimension score belonged to "equality andjustice" (65.7 ± 29.2). The highest average score of philosophical attitude was in "coordinate betweensection” (81.5 ± 23.0) and the lowest philosophical dimension belonged to "equality" (49.1 ± 12.8).Conclusion: The average score for all the categories of knowledge management was a little higher than80. The mean attitude score was 65. This result was not good for the system; because the attitude ofmanagers plays a key role in the run up to the principles of PHC.
