• español
    • English
    • português
  • English 
    • español
    • English
    • português
  • IRIS PAHO Home
  • PAHO website
  • Indexes
  • All Collections
  • About IRIS
  • Institutional Memory
  • Contact
JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.
View Item 
  •   IRIS PAHO Home
  • 1.PAHO Headquarters / Sede de la OPS
  • Scientific Journals and Newsletters / Revistas Científicas y Boletines
  • Pan American Journal of Public Health
  • View Item
  •   IRIS PAHO Home
  • 1.PAHO Headquarters / Sede de la OPS
  • Scientific Journals and Newsletters / Revistas Científicas y Boletines
  • Pan American Journal of Public Health
  • View Item

National service in rural areas: the case of Colombia

Thumbnail
View/Open
ev10n2p156.pdf (1.021Mb)
  • Global styles
  • WHO
  • Chicago
  • Elsevier Vancouver
  • Elsevier Harvard
  • Help
  • CSV
  • RIS (Refman)
Date
1976
Author
Thacker, Stephen B
Banta, Henry David
Metadata
Show full item record
Abstract
Sending new medical school graduates into rural areas does give underserved populations access to modern medical care, perhaps for the first time. However, these young physicians usually spend most of their time providing strictly clinical services and are generally eager to leave at the end of their assignment. Some have referred to this practice as «parachuting» a doctor into an underserved area. An alternative is to focus first on building up permanent health service facilities in rural areas that are staffed by appropriate paraprofessionals. The young physician can then play a much more important role, serving as an administrator, researcher, evaluator, and teacher of the local staff; his clinical activities would generally be confined to the more complicated medical problems that arise. Such a model has been implemented in Kenya and Tanzania. An informal field assessment in Colombia has indicated that this model could be effectively applied there as well; indeed, it has been the hope of Colombian policymakers that the rural intern would function in such a way. However, this would require developing the nation's system of health services, as well as providing specific training aimed at preparing the medical student to perform his assigned role (Au)
Series
Bulletin of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO);10(2),1976
Subject
Internship and Residency; Rural Health; Colombia; Kenya
URI
https://iris.paho.org/handle/10665.2/27661
Collections
  • Pan American Journal of Public Health

Related items

Showing items related by title, author, creator and subject.

  • Thumbnail
    Adiestramiento de administradores de hospitales y programas de salud 
    Bravo, Alfredo L; Enríquez F., Hugo (s.d.)
    Outstanding among the public health problems in Latin America are personnel shortages and obsolete administration and organization of health services
  • Thumbnail
    Cultural perceptions and nutritional disorders: a Jamaican case study 
    Fonaroff, A (1975)
    This case study brings out differences in the way protein-calorie malnutrition (PCM) in Jamaica is regarded by women who use medical services, women who do not, indigenous health practitioners, and trained health workers. ...
  • Thumbnail
    Epidemiological Alert: Dengue in the context of COVID-19 (28 July 2020) 
    Pan American Health Organization; Health Emergencies (PHE) (PAHOOPSUnited StatesWashington, D.C., 2020)
    In the context of the current COVID-19 pandemic, the potential seasonal increase in dengue cases in endemic countries represents a challenge for both the population at large and health service providers who would be ...

Browse

All of IRIS PAHOCommunities & CollectionsBy Issue DateAuthorsTitlesSubjectsSeries TitleType of materialLanguageCategoryTechnical Unit/Country OfficeThis CollectionBy Issue DateAuthorsTitlesSubjectsSeries TitleType of materialLanguageCategoryTechnical Unit/Country Office

Statistics

View Usage Statistics

Pan American Health Organization
World Health Organization. Regional Office for the Americas
525 Twenty-third Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20037, United States of America
Tel.: +1 (202) 974-3000 Fax: +1 (202) 974-3663
email: libraryhq@paho.org

Links

  • PAHO Featured Publications
  • WHO Digital Library (IRIS)
  • Virtual Health Library (VHL)
  • Global Index Medicus (GIM)

Export citations

Export the current results of the search query as a citation list. Select one of the available citation styles, or add a new one using the "Citations format" option present in the "My account" section.

The list of citations that can be exported is limited to items.

Export citations

Export the current item as a citation. Select one of the available citation styles, or add a new one using the "Citations format" option present in the "My account" section.

Export Citations