Advancing primary care: Establishing family medicine specialty in Tanzania

African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine

 
 
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Title Advancing primary care: Establishing family medicine specialty in Tanzania
 
Creator Aghan, Eric L. Ziegler, Henry Mutasingwa, Donatus R. Massawe, Enica R. Wangwe, Peter J. Lyakurwa, Dennis Abeid, Muzdalifat Ratansi, Riaz Kassam, Nadeem Johnston, Esther
 
Subject — family medicine; family physician; primary health care; Tanzania; training
Description Family medicine has existed as a training pathway through a private university in Tanzania since 2004. As global calls have increased to embrace primary health care as a pathway to ensuring universal health coverage, so has Tanzania recently turned to explore family medicine as a specialty to improve access to comprehensive, high-quality healthcare for her entire population. This article outlines ongoing efforts to define competencies and skills of a family medicine physician in Tanzania, engage government support and open the first public university training programme for family medicine postgraduate education.
 
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Contributor Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences Aga Khan University Dar es Salaam Health Tanzania Foundation Socio-Economic-Education-Transformation Department of Curative Services Ministry of Health
Date 2023-12-04
 
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Identifier 10.4102/phcfm.v15i1.4248
 
Source African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine; Vol 15, No 1 (2023); 4 pages 2071-2936 2071-2928
 
Language eng
 
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Rights Copyright (c) 2023 Eric L. Aghan, Henry Ziegler, Donatus R. Mutasingwa, Enica R. Massawe, Peter J. Wangwe, Dennis Lyakurwa, Muzdalifat Abeid, Riaz Ratansi, Nadeem Kassam, Esther Johnston https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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