Alireza Jabari; Gholamreza Sharifirad; Azad Shokri; Najmeh Bahman Ziari; Ayan Kordi; Ahmad Rajab Zadeh
Volume 10, Issue 1 , May 2014, , Pages 1-2
Alireza Jabari; Gholamreza Sharifirad; Azad Shokri; Najmeh Bahman Ziari; Ayan Kordi
Volume 9, Issue 7 , December 2012, , Pages 1132-1145
Abstract
The ultimate goal of the health care system of any country is to promote public health. Reformingprograms were required because of failure to respond to the needs and expectations of health in recentdecades. Rural family physician was a part of these reforms of the health system, which was implementedin ...
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The ultimate goal of the health care system of any country is to promote public health. Reformingprograms were required because of failure to respond to the needs and expectations of health in recentdecades. Rural family physician was a part of these reforms of the health system, which was implementedin 2006. The aim of this study was to evaluate the performance of the rural family physician programsince it was started. This review was done by searching in Google, Google scholar, SID, Magiran,Iran-doc with the following keywords: Family physician, rural family physician, family medicine, ruralfamily medicine. 32 related articles were extracted and analyzed. The objectives of family physicianprogram were classified in several sub-goals series including referral system, accountability, access, cost,coverage, priority-based health services, formation of health record, control the quality of services,satisfaction and attitudes of health team staff and service recipients and the family physician performancein achieving this goals. Generally, after a few years of implementation, the program has performedrelatively well but the referral system and presenting feedback from specialists, patients follow-up andcompleting health record was not implemented properly. Access was improved and unnecessary costswere reduced although good holistic health insight has not institutionalized yet.
