Open AccessComparative assessment of the quality of the primary care system: A survey of family physicians' perspective at a tertiary health facility and a new family medicine training facility in the Lagos State health system
Author(s) -
Olawunmi Olagundoye,
Omobolanle O Akinwunmi,
Esther Tolulope Onafeso,
Ihuoma Henshaw,
Adewunmi Odujoko,
Mutiat A Oladipo-Badmus,
Folasade T Amosun,
Ibijoke O Ajumobi
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of family medicine and primary care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2278-7135
pISSN - 2249-4863
DOI - 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_980_19
Subject(s) - medicine , context (archaeology) , strengths and weaknesses , government (linguistics) , health care , quality (philosophy) , nursing , health facility , family medicine , environmental health , health services , population , paleontology , philosophy , linguistics , economics , biology , economic growth , epistemology
Revitalizing the primary health care (PHC) centers has been at the top of the priority list of the Lagos State Government. Achieving this goal should restore the confidence of the people in and increase their utilization of PHC centers in their communities. At the forefront of the provision of comprehensive, continuous and coordinated care for individuals within the context of the family and community are family physicians (FPs), who are equally saddled with the task of clinical governance by virtue of their strategic position in the health system. It became expedient to expand human resource capacity building as a primary care quality improvement initiative of the state through the introduction of a post-graduate training program in family medicine at its biggest multi-specialist secondary health care facility.