CURRENT STATUS OF KNOWLEDGE ABOUT PRIMARY HEALTH CARE, AND SOME RELATED FACTORS IN HEALTHCARE WORKERS BINH DUONG PROVINCE BASELINE IN 2023

Hồng Chương Nguyễn , Minh Chín Huỳnh, Nguyễn Đăng Khoa Lê , Anh Phi Huỳnh, Tường Quang Nguyễn

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Background: Primary health care has been shown to be highly effective in addressing the main causes and risk factors for health, as well as in addressing emerging challenges that can threaten health in the future. future. In Vietnam, primary health care is closely associated with the grassroots health care team and the PHC team here, so to do good primary health care work, the grassroots PHC first needs to clearly understand the nature of primary health care. primary health care. Objective: Describe the current situation and learn some factors related to primary health care knowledge of grassroots medical staff in Binh Duong province in 2023. Research method: Using descriptive cross-sectional research design. This study was conducted on 240 health workers of medical stations in Binh Duong province using the convenient sampling method. Results: 73.8% of health workers have good knowledge, 15.8% of health workers have average knowledge, 10.4% of health workers have poor knowledge of primary health care. There is a statistically significant difference in position, qualifications, length of work and general knowledge about primary health care: Employees with poor general knowledge about primary health care are 3 times more likely to have poor general knowledge about primary health care. .53 times (95% CI: 1.53-9.09) compared with management. Health workers with college or intermediate degrees have poor general knowledge about primary health care 1.98 times higher (95% CI: 1.02-4.12) than those with college or postgraduate degrees. learn. Health workers with working time of 5 years or less have poor general knowledge about primary health care 2.2 times higher (95% CI: 1.15-4.19) than health workers with working time. working for over 5 years. Conclusion: It is necessary to improve knowledge about primary health care for grassroots healthcare on a province-wide scale, and strengthen training and supervision activities to support primary health care. Health stations need to proactively implement primary health care, avoid being passive and heavily dependent on higher levels, and regularly coordinate to organize training and guidance on primary health care practice.

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