Turkey's family physician or practice system was established at the beginning of 2010 across Turkey's 81 provinces and provides low- cost health care, preventive and curative basic medical services to the population. Public health centres across Turkey have now become Family Health Centers (ASMs) as part of Turkey's efforts to harmonize its health care system with that of the European Union. The aim of This study is to analyze and evaluate the implementation and performance of Family Practice in Ankara province by family physicians. A questionnaire form of 42 question was designed and used to determine opinions of the physicians about effective service & quality improvement, patient-physician relationship, efficiency in the area of responsibility, productivity, job satisfaction and equity. The result of the study shows that family physicians were defined to be generally satisfied with the system and performance implementation and significant differences were found according to work seniority, gender and productivity of the participants. Finally, this study should be taken within it?s limitation. The work seniority and gender were one of the most important factors to improve satisfaction and productivity for family physicians in Turkey. The sample size was representative for the country, however, one limitation might be considered the increase of sample size in future research if appropriate funding became available in the future. This study did not have any source of funding.

العنوان

Journal of health and human services administration

الناشر

Medscape

بلد الناشر

تركيا

نوع المنشور

Both (Printed and Online)

المجلد

39

السنة

2016

الصفحات

186-216