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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
medicine
Neighbourhood rural medicine: An experience of rural doctors in Mali
Education for Health: Change in Learning and Practice, Volume 20, No. 2, Year 2007
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The main constraint to improving access to health services of quality in rural areas is to attract qualified health personnel in these areas. A fifteen years experience in rural health in Mali has shown that it is possible to develop community medicine practices in an African context that do integrate individual care and public health activities. The policy of decentralization of health services encouraged local communities and municipalities to recruit rural doctors themselves. An initiative of rural doctors materialized with this event as they founded a national association and adhere to the principles of a Charter to provide quality health care at an affordable cost. A mechanism of quality improvement was established with the participation of several partners: a professional association, a funding non-governmental organization, and groups of academic staff and health managers. This paper describes the evolution of the rural doctors' experience, its philosophy, conditions that made it successful, constraints it had to overcome and the attitude of partners. It highlights the potential of health care personnel in Africa to provide primary health care well beyond traditional programs on prevalent diseases and to respond to both urgent individual needs and pressing public health requirements. © S Coulibaly, D Desplats, Y Kone, K Nimaga, S Dugas, G Farnarier, M Sy, H Balique, OK Doumbo, M Van Dormael, 2007.
Authors & Co-Authors
Coulibaly, Seydou K.
Mali, Bamako
Santé Sud
Desplat, D.
France, Marseille
Santé Sud
Kone, Y.
Mali, Bamako
Santé Sud
Nimaga, Karamoko
Mali, Bamako
Association Des Médecins de Campagne
Dugas, Sylvie
Belgium, Antwerpen
Prins Leopold Instituut Voor Tropische Geneeskunde
Farnarier, Guy
France, Marseille
Aix Marseille Université
Sy, Mansour
Mali, Bamako
Santé Sud
Balique, Hubert
France, Marseille
Santé Sud
Doumbo, Ogobara K.
Mali, Bamako
University of Bamako Faculty of Medicine, Pharmacy and Odonto-stomatology
van Dormael, Monique
Belgium, Antwerpen
Prins Leopold Instituut Voor Tropische Geneeskunde
Statistics
Citations: 10
Authors: 10
Affiliations: 6
Identifiers
ISSN:
13576283
e-ISSN:
14695804
Research Areas
Health System And Policy
Study Locations
Mali