The sustainability of human resources of primary health care organization in Mongolia

Abstract

Introduction: The one of main factors for providing high qualified and accessible primary health care service is human resource capacity. Although there are complaints regarding knowledge, experience and work stability of general practitioners and nurses among customers, there is a luck of studies concerning human resources at the primary health centers. Objective: This study aims to study work experience and sustainability of human resources of family and soum health centers. Method: We have used cross-sectional data of 908 health professionals working in 70 primary health centers nationwide. Work experience and stability of health professionals is done by the detailed descriptive analysis. Results: The result of the study shows that family and soum health centers, which are primary health care organizations have a human resource with an average of 13.7 years of working experience and 12 years of professional experience. However, health professionals at family health centers have been working for the same organization for about 6.5 years, soum health centers for 11 years, and Inter-soum health centers for 13 years continuously. The human resource stability of family and soum health centers is 60.6 percent in rural areas, 33.6 percent in Ulaanbaatar city health centers. Conclusion: The number of years of human resource work in the primary health care organization and the stability of human resources has been declining as the rank of the health center has increased.