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Attitude of Postgraduate medical student’s towards rural health service in Andhra Pradesh

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Sridhar, Ch. Radhakumari, P. Appalanaidu, S.
Copyright Year	2014
Abstract	Background: In India 30% of doctors working in rural areas where 68.84% of the population is residing. India may not achieve health related millennium development goals, as required investments yet to be made in health sector, although a beginning has been made by the NRHM, which is facing several constraints, notable among these constraints is the insufficient deployment of human resources, especially doctors in the health institutions located in the rural areas.. Objectives: 1) To know the socio-demographic profile of study population 2) To study the attitudes towards rural health service in study population Methods: A Cross sectional study was conducted among 100 randomly selected postgraduate medical students of Andhra Medical College, Visakhapatnam with self-administered pretested questionnaire& Informed consent was taken from the study subjects.The data was analyzed with the help of MS EXCEL. Results: Among study population 53% male, 47 % female, 27% are in-service postgraduates. 52% from urban 46% rural & 2% from tribal areas and17% of the study population said that health care services are sufficient 83% disagreed,interestingly 56% are interested to work in rural areas. Conclusion: About56% of Postgraduates are interested to work in rural areas provided sufficient infrastructure is present.
Starting Page	48
Ending Page	51
Page Count	4
File Format	PDF HTM / HTML
DOI	10.9790/0853-13984851
Volume Number	13
Alternate Webpage(s)	http://www.iosrjournals.org/iosr-jdms/papers/Vol13-issue9/Version-8/M013984851.pdf
Alternate Webpage(s)	https://doi.org/10.9790/0853-13984851
Language	English
Access Restriction	Open
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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