ACCESSIBILITY AND ATTRACTIVENESS OF PRIMARY CARE SERVICES IN ALGERIA
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2017
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Oum-El-Bouaghi University
Abstract
The restructuring of basic health care structures represented by public institutions
nearby care in Algeria, according to Executive Decree 07/140 of 19 May 2007,
could have effects both positive and negative: positive effects as we quote the
approximation of diversified health services towards the citizen. As for the
negative effects they live in ignorance of the real role of this kind of structure,
namely the prevention in the broad sense of the term before the one of care.
Among the results of our case study on the 7 wilayas of eastern Algeria, we noted:
a small financial allocation and a shortage of medical and paramedical human
resources, which have frozen the role of these NHPF, and which have favored the
caregiver’s recourse to hospital emergencies. On the other hand, we have also
noticed the sufficient number of these structures throughout all the communes of
the country and their proximity to the living environments, despite the derisory
number of services rendered, which were able to meet certain needs of the
inhabitants.
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Primary care services, Access to basic health care, Nearby health care facilities, Public health in Algeria