فهرست نشریات علمی دسترسی آزاد ایران

Background: Family health is one of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) programsconcerning individuals’ and families’ health and development. If properly implemented, family health may ensure the health of human beings and support their self-fulfillment; and maypave the way for bringing up a healthier and better generation by achieving two importantand specific quantitative and qualitative results. This study aims at establishing the existingproblems in the medical education system with respect to family health, which may be managed by the family health professional if a Masters’ course educational program is developed.Materials and Methods: In this cross-sectional, descriptive study, five Type-1 and four Type-2 andType-3 universities were randomly selected. Then, the faculty members of health services/publichealth departments, health managers, health and treatment networks managers, personnel ofprovincial health centers in family health units, and also public health B. S. students were surveyedon the existing problems in the national health system which can be solved by family health professional. A questionnaire containing one open-ended and several demographic questions was sentby mail for some and personally handed over to some others. Since the data were of a qualitativenature, first the categories were specified through content analysis and then the opinions of eachcategory of individuals were differentiated based on the relevant categories. Results: Results obtained from the comments of the study population led to specification of problems in health system,which could be solved by the family health senior expert. Such problems were categorized into sixgroups as: Planning and implementation, research, education, management, service-providing, andcultural problems. Conclusion: Given the problems in our nation concerning various family healthissues, the field of family health in the levels of associate and bachelor degrees cannot respond toall public requirements, and health personnel in these levels do not possess various professional,planning, research, and educational skills required to analyze family health problems. Therefore,it is suggested that a Masters’ course educational program be developed.