Review of Public Administration and Management

Abstract

Offer of a Program of General Doctors for the Primary Care of Health of Chile

Camilo Bass

In spite of the intentions declared in last reform of health of Chile, implemented for more than ten years, of placing to the Primary care of Health as the backbone of the System of Health and of that they have increased progressively the resources destined for this level of attention, in the practice, there exist not approached problems that threaten the success of this process, as well as the result of the National Strategy of Health 2011-2020. A relevant example is the absence of an integral politics of development of the medical resource of the Primary care of Health, which produces that at present there persists a significant deficit of medical hours in this level of attention, consisting of a range brought near between 3.000 to 7.500 Medical Equivalent Days. Inside the offers to diminish this doctors’ important gap of Primary care of Health, there appears the Program of General Doctors for the Primary care of Health. This strategy considers to integrate the doctors newly gone away to the Public System of Health, in order that they initiate his professional exercise, which allows in a nearby future to implement a standard of 1 doctor medical equivalent day every 2.000 persons (maximum) in the Primary care of Health, with the aim to improve the quality of the attention that is offered to the community, strengthening the permanency of the doctors in the first level of attention, in addition to the resoluteness which must provide the Primary care of Health of our country.