National Health Policy Reform for Primary Care in Chile: A Qualitative Analysis of the Health Program Documents.

ABSTRACT: Introduction: Chilean policy makers reformed the national health policy for primary health care (PHC), shifting from the traditional biomedical model to the integral family and community health model with a biopsychosocial approach, to guide the delivery of PHC throughout the country. Purpose: To evaluate the implementation of the national health policy for PHC through an analysis of the program documents for PHC; and to identify to what extent the national health policy is expressed in each program document, and across all the documents. Methods: A qualitative document analysis with a purposive sample of program documents for PHC. The Chilean Ministry of Health website was systematically searched between October and December 2018 to identify relevant program documents

SUBMITTER: Dominguez-Cancino KA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7263108 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature