Proper Distribution of Specialist Physicians: A Strategy Towards Realizing Justice and Equity in Access to Health Care Services
Background: Paving the way for having equitable access to medical intervention programs is the most important action that a health system can take in realizing social justice. This study aims at examining proper distribution of specialist physicians as an strategy towards realizing justice and equit...
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| description | Background: Paving the way for having equitable access to medical intervention programs is the most important action that a health system can take in realizing social justice. This study aims at examining proper distribution of specialist physicians as an strategy towards realizing justice and equity in access to and use of health services as well as providing recommendations for policy-makers.
Methods: This is a review-narrative and bibliographic research that used databases consisting of Magiran, Irandoc, Iranmedex, SID, PubMed, Scopus, EMBASE, Direct Science with the key words including Specialists, Health, Equity, Accessibility, Health system and Human resources. The data were collected from 1990 to 2015.
Results: There are evidences of regions in the world that still are lacking sufficient number of physician workforce and are not only faced with challenges of recruiting, but also with retention of specialist physicians. In fact, migration of human workforce from deprived regions to more organized and prosperous parts has been a factor influencing workforce shortage in these regions; thereby it adds further problem of recruitment and retention of specialist workforce.
Conclusions: Human workforce distribution (Specialist or non-specialists) has direct effects on realizing equity and justice in health system; it also influences economy of a given country indirectly. On the other hand, compensation is one of the important incentives that drives workforce behavior and makes them more inclined towards working in deprived regions. Taking the above mentioned ideas, it is recommended for the health system to use more economic incentives and insure proper distribution that fits individuals' needs. Using various tax policies in deprived, wealthy, and generally different geographical regions is one of the most important incentives available to leverage this purpose. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-eba036d368d2462797a166f10c4f641e2022-12-21T18:39:16ZengShahid Sadoughi University of Medical SciencesJournal of Evidence Based Health Policy, Management & Economics2538-50702538-47162017-06-0112120127Proper Distribution of Specialist Physicians: A Strategy Towards Realizing Justice and Equity in Access to Health Care ServicesMobin Sokhanvar0Reza Moradi1Mohammad Hossein Yarmohammadian2Ali Nemati3Salah Addin Asadi4 Student Research Committee, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran. 2 Department of Management and health economic, school of Public health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Iranian Center of Excellence in Health Management, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran. Background: Paving the way for having equitable access to medical intervention programs is the most important action that a health system can take in realizing social justice. This study aims at examining proper distribution of specialist physicians as an strategy towards realizing justice and equity in access to and use of health services as well as providing recommendations for policy-makers. Methods: This is a review-narrative and bibliographic research that used databases consisting of Magiran, Irandoc, Iranmedex, SID, PubMed, Scopus, EMBASE, Direct Science with the key words including Specialists, Health, Equity, Accessibility, Health system and Human resources. The data were collected from 1990 to 2015. Results: There are evidences of regions in the world that still are lacking sufficient number of physician workforce and are not only faced with challenges of recruiting, but also with retention of specialist physicians. In fact, migration of human workforce from deprived regions to more organized and prosperous parts has been a factor influencing workforce shortage in these regions; thereby it adds further problem of recruitment and retention of specialist workforce. Conclusions: Human workforce distribution (Specialist or non-specialists) has direct effects on realizing equity and justice in health system; it also influences economy of a given country indirectly. On the other hand, compensation is one of the important incentives that drives workforce behavior and makes them more inclined towards working in deprived regions. Taking the above mentioned ideas, it is recommended for the health system to use more economic incentives and insure proper distribution that fits individuals' needs. Using various tax policies in deprived, wealthy, and generally different geographical regions is one of the most important incentives available to leverage this purpose.http://jebhpme.ssu.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-26-16&slc_lang=en&sid=1Specialist Physicians Equity Accessibility Human resources Health |
| spellingShingle | Mobin Sokhanvar Reza Moradi Mohammad Hossein Yarmohammadian Ali Nemati Salah Addin Asadi Proper Distribution of Specialist Physicians: A Strategy Towards Realizing Justice and Equity in Access to Health Care Services Journal of Evidence Based Health Policy, Management & Economics Specialist Physicians Equity Accessibility Human resources Health |
| title | Proper Distribution of Specialist Physicians: A Strategy Towards Realizing Justice and Equity in Access to Health Care Services |
| title_full | Proper Distribution of Specialist Physicians: A Strategy Towards Realizing Justice and Equity in Access to Health Care Services |
| title_fullStr | Proper Distribution of Specialist Physicians: A Strategy Towards Realizing Justice and Equity in Access to Health Care Services |
| title_full_unstemmed | Proper Distribution of Specialist Physicians: A Strategy Towards Realizing Justice and Equity in Access to Health Care Services |
| title_short | Proper Distribution of Specialist Physicians: A Strategy Towards Realizing Justice and Equity in Access to Health Care Services |
| title_sort | proper distribution of specialist physicians a strategy towards realizing justice and equity in access to health care services |
| topic | Specialist Physicians Equity Accessibility Human resources Health |
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