Job satisfaction and quality of life levels of primary care physicians after health reforms in Bursa/Turkey

Year 2025, Volume: 11 Issue: 1, 20 - 35, 31.12.2024

Pelin Şavlı Emiroğlu , Kayihan Pala

Abstract

Health Transformation Programme (HTP) has majorly changed primary health care organization. Family physicians have been deployed in Family Health Centers (FHC) heavily for patient treatment and Community Health Centers (CHC) were constituted for basic health care services with the Pilot Application Law on Family Medicine. 529 (92.16%) primary care physicians who were working at city center of Bursa involved inthis study. Job satisfaction was 2.55 times higher in participants satisfied with their salary; whereas it was 5.70 times lower in participants who find health profession stressful and 3.62time lower in the ones who were exposed to violence by patient/patient’s relative in the recent year. Quality of life was 2.80 times higher in the ones who think they have enough time tospend with their family, 1.51 times higher in the ones who were satisfied with their earnings,
and 4.09 times higher in the ones who used three weeks or more annual leave,.Preventing physicians’ exposure to violence by patients/patients’relatives, providing increasein pay by saving personal rights and establishing legislative regulations for doctors to usetheir legal leave rights without worrying about pay loss can all positively affect job satisfaction and quality of life of the doctors.

Keywords

Primary Care, Job Satisfaction, Quality of Life, Physicians, Family Health Centers

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