Despite challenges in equitable distribution of practitioners, participant satisfaction with the compulsory community service programme appears to be high among those who responded to a 2009 questionnaire.
In countries with gatekeeping and equitable access to general practitioners (GPs), social inequalities in GP-patient interaction could be an important mechanism by which inequalities in access to medical specialists arise.
Staffing norms are not an end in themselves, but they provide guidance to managers and practitioners alike and assist with achieving equitable access to health-care providers, particularly in underserved urban and rural areas (55).
These areas will provide the science that will inform policy and business decisions and guide the engagement of practitioners to work towards sustainability transitions to equitable, sustainable, post-fossil carbon societies.
Our findings confirm those from other U.K. studies, which suggested that the processes of care for diabetes were generally equitable between ethnic groups before the introduction of the family practitioner contract in 2004 (22).
In the present study we calculated the level of inequality in the distribution of general practitioners and the number of general practitioners who must be relocated in order to achieve an equitable distribution, adjusting for population health needs.
Moreover, it is not just language that can cause barriers to equitable healthcare: inequities inherent in the social dynamic of the patient-practitioner encounter are well documented, and these inequities occur independent of whether L1 is shared [ 6].
This focus on gender endorses the observation, made by practitioners and researchers alike, that for cities to become truly equitable and sustainable – and meet the SDGs – they must attend to a broader range of experiences.
In the present study we calculated the level of inequality in the distribution of general practitioners in Albania and the number of general practitioners who must be relocated in order to achieve an equitable distribution.
After the adjustment for community health needs (mortality), the proportion of general practitioners that should be relocated in order to achieve an equitable distribution of the primary care medical workforce is less.
But it's always going to be more effective, and it's certainly going to be more equitable, if it's done within the public system," said Robert Woollard, a longtime family practitioner and member of Canadian Doctors for Medicare, which has applied to join the lawsuit in British Columbia.
