The Study of the Situation family Physicians Program and its Adaption with the Policy Making Dimensions from the Opinion of Service Providers

The family physician is a corrective program to reach vulnerable groups, the political process is the awareness and identify of the objectives of the policy making process is essential for service providers. The purpose of this study was to assess the status of implementation of the policy of family physician in Yazd province was from the opinion of service providers.

This is a descriptive cross-sectional and applied study. The population included of all family physicians and midwives in health centers in Yazd (N=105), they were selected by census. Data were gathered by the questionnaire that was used to confirm the validity and reliability was used. To analyze the data descriptive statistics of mean, standard deviation, frequency and percentage and at the inferential statistic's level, one sample t test, independent t test was used.

Results showed that the family physician service providers the policymaking dimensions, the situation of effectiveness, monitoring, appropriateness and influence of higher than average and the assessment of the adequacy and efficiency were medium.

The results showed that the effectiveness of monitoring, appropriateness and effectiveness were higher than average, and dimensions of adequacy and efficiency were medium. there were significant difference in the effectiveness between the opinion of Physicians and midwives, and werent significant differences on other dimensions.