Access to Good
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Access to good-quality health services is crucial for the improvement of health outcome The imbalanced distribution of health personnel can contribute to great disparities in health outcomes between the rural and urban population. More generous benefits, such as health insurance and vacation time, are the most commonly used incentives. Other benefits may include tuition reimbursement, flexible wor hours, bonuses based on experience or length of commitment, study and recreation leaves, employment opportunities for doctor!s spouses, better accommodation facilities and improvements in e ducational institutions for doctor!s children "ecentrali#ation of the location of training institutions has also been proposed, but more rarely implemented. $ducational subsidies to individuals are commonly proposed as a tool to augment the number of students where recruitment is difficult %owever, tr aining more individuals may not be the right answer for i mproving the distribution of health professionals. Tr ained individuals may migrate, leave their o riginal profession to wor in another area, or withdraw from the labour maret, which is especially true for women Another strategy has been the establishment of rural field residencies or internships as a requirement in medical training Dr. Esperanza Cabral, former health secretary, comment ed that the problem the country is currently experiencing is not so much of a healthcare workforce shortage, but a geographic maldistribution of healthcare workforce.
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Access to good-quality health services is crucial for the improvement of health outcome
The imbalanced distribution of health personnel can contribute to great disparities in health outcomes between the rural and urban population.
More generous benefits, such as health insurance and vacation time, are the most commonly used incentives. Other benefits may include tuition reimbursement, flexible work hours, bonuses based on experience or length of commitment, study and recreation leaves, employment opportunities for doctor's spouses, better accommodation facilities and improvements in educational institutions for doctor's children
Decentralization of the location of training institutions has also been proposed, but more rarely implemented.Educational subsidies to individuals are commonly proposed as a tool to augment the number of students where recruitment is difficultHowever, training more individuals may not be the right answer for improving the distribution of health professionals. Trained individuals may migrate, leave their original profession to work in another area, or withdraw from the labour market, which is especially true for womenAnother strategy has been the establishment of rural field residencies or internships as a requirement in medical training
Dr. Esperanza Cabral, former health secretary, commented that the problem the country is currently experiencing is not so much of a healthcare workforce shortage, but a geographic maldistribution of healthcare workforce.
