Challenges in the implementation of primary health care reforms: a qualitative analysis of stakeholders' views in Turkey.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This study aims to assess the implementation of the Family Medicine Programme (FMP), which has taken place in Turkey from 2005 to 2010 as a set of comprehensive primary health care (PHC) reforms and involved changes in professional organisation (eg, family medicine specialisation) and service provision (eg, patients' registration list). Our particular interest is to identify the challenges and limitations that PHC physicians and academicians have encountered in the implementation of the FMP which could have influenced the delivery of care and utilisation of services.

Design

We applied the framework method to analyse data obtained through semi-structured interviews conducted in the field. This qualitative approach involved the categorisation of raw data into a pred

SUBMITTER: Espinosa-Gonzalez AB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6661696 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature