ANALYSES AND WAYS OF IMPROVING THE INDICATORS OF HUMAN RESOURCES IN THE FIELD OF HEALTH CARE

Baikenzheyev S.

 Medical University Astana, Kazakhstan

 

A problem of shortage of specialists is in the priorities list of the World Health Organization. There are about 60 million medical personals in the world. According to the data of the WHO nowadays about 4,5 million medical  personnel’s are needed in the world. This problem is topical for Kazakhstan as well. In our country the total  number  of  the  people  medical  of  field is over 219 thousands and 153 thousand out of them are  medical personals who have  not  higher  education. 86 percent  of  them  are  doctors that  are  engaged  with treatment  of patients,18 percent of medical  personnel’s who have  not  higher education  work  in the  rural areas. New programs for  additional, secondary and  post  graduate education which were  based on the international  standard  of  training  the  medical  personals have  been  introduced.

Changed in the structure of preparing the specialists  of  health  care  are  aimed at  combining  medical  education  affain with  three – leveled system of  European principles on providing with high education. Besides compulsory components there has been considered a possibility of choosing the subject and making up of getting independent education. Also at the junior courses a practice students meeting with patient have been introduced. New subject such as communicative skills and basics of medicine are taught. There is a system of independent assessment of the quality of education. It is carried out by the national and international Boards of accreditation. National standards of specialized accreditation of medical institutes universities and organizations will be formed and confirm. Kazakhstan occupies  the  10-th place in the world on the  level  of  providing  the  medical  fields  with doctors  and  physicians.

 In order  to solve the problem of providing  with medical staff  according  to  the  information  of  ministry the prognosis and  planning  of  request for  doctors  within the plan  of  complex  measures  on  developing  the  human  resources  for   health  care  for  2013-2016 are  under consideration. Also  introducing  of  a new  institution  on  independent  assessment  of  knowledge and skills of  doctors  and   a new  principle  on  organizing  the  work  of  nurses  has  been  offered. There was opened a Republican  Center  of  in depended  assessment  for  knowledge  and  skills  of  doctors on  the basis of  the  experience of developed the  countries. Shortage of doctors is very high in rural areas. In  order  to send  young  specialists to rural  areas  it  is  needed  to  secure  them  with  social  benefits. For example, our  graduates are  working  in 15  foreign countries now including the  USA  and  Israel, and  also  There are  students  from  about  16 foreign  countries who  studding  in our country. Those foreign students will go back and work in their countries  after graduation.

      To improve human resource policy in the health care organizations:

- to prepare   the  document  on  development  of  human  resources  of  the  Health  care  field  which  includes   the  planning   the  principles  of  human  resource  issue and  the  principles  of   realizing  it  effectively:

- to expand  the  practice  on  formation  of  purposeful  requests of  the  local  executive bodies for  preparing  doctors:

- to attract  managers  who  have  knowledge  of  economy  for  managing  the  health  care  organizations  and  provide them  with  management  skills   using  normative   basis  on this   field:

-  to improve  the  system  of  payment  for  doctors:

- to support  the social and  professional  authority  of  doctors, to  cooperate  with  mass  media  for   bringing  the  work  of  doctors  into   the  light:

- together with  the  development  of  institutions  on  professional  authority  and  professional  competitiveness  to prepare   Republican  and  regional  programs  for  improvement  of  professional  development  of  doctors:

- to improve  and support the  role of  professional associations  of doctors:

- to  prepare  and  to  introduce  the  principles  on  protecting  doctors socially  which  includes  social benefit complex  for doctors.

- to prepare  and to introduce  prophylactic  measures for doctors which  are used  during  the quarantine  and  danger  of  spreading  of  the  most  dangerous  infection:

- to develop information supplies in the field of health care:

- to improve and to introduce central infer-system of earth care:

- to realize clinical algorithms, protocols and other standards.

- also there will  be  considered  the  following issues:

- to form the registration of those diseases which are socially important:

- to make up decisions on improving infra structure, communication and information supply the doctors of those areas with the information resources on health care:

-to provide the fist-aid brigades with GPS navigation, with information  resources:

- to form the system  of information on blood supply service:

- to widen  the net of national telemedicine.

The shortage  of medical  staff  on the world  market  amounts  to 4.3 million people.86 percent of medical  personals  work  in the USA, Great Britain, Canada, Germany, Australia  and other 57 countries  suffer from  lack  of  doctors. The number  of  doctors  in the field of  medicine  across the globe  is about  the  rest  serve as  administration  staff  and  assistants. Without  these personals it would be  impossible  to fulfill work  on  prophylactics, treatments  of  patients.IN the  system  of  world  health care there is a definite  gap in the  number between  doctors  and  population and the  migration of  medical  personals  worsen  this  gap. In the countries  where  there   are high  salaries  the training  of human  resources  is  considered  to be  worse  but  the  demand  for  medico-sanitary  personals is due to the ageing, increase  of  diabetes  and  cardio-vascular  diseases.

During  the analysis of situation on providing with doctors in our country  it is  observed  that there  is a stability  in  this field  since  2005 year.

The number of women-doctors is by 2.5 more than the men- doctors. In the system of health career of the RK the analysis of the state of specialists shows the following.

The indicator of supplying with doctors in cities by 4.5 higher than in rural areas. It  proves that rural population is short of medical assistance, short of having measures  on  preventing  diseases.2.There is not systematic distribution  of doctors according to specialties (midwife, gynecologist, cardiologist ,endocrinologist, psychiatrist, ophthalmologist  and  others) 3.The high coefficient of leaving the work places  by doctors  and  assistants  takes  place  because  of  low  salary  and  the difficulty  of  their  work.

President of  our country  pointed  out  about  the supplying  the  hospitals  with  high  leveled  specialists. He  said « The hospitals  which  have  been  built  in  supplied  with  high –skilled doctors  but  unfortunately  tin is  not  so. IF there is a shortage of doctors the construction of hospitals will be stopped. What i the use of building hospitals without doctors working there? These issues should go alongside with each other. It is needed to prepare specialists, skilled specialists. It is true those now days we are short of doctors. If we take a look at the data  of some  specialists  in  our  country  hospitals need 5000 doctors more at present such specialists likestamatologist, surgeon, mammologist, cardiologist, ophthalmologist  are  not  enough. State  medical  higher  education  institutions for  the  last  10 years have  bought  teaching  clinical  and  laboratory  equipments  for  the  first  time. Majority of institutes, universities got the status of state enterprises which are able to keep economics by themselves.

  Introduction  of  innovative  technologies  on  education  is realizing  the  state  program improving  the  professionals  skills abroad, inviting  foreign  medical  specialists  to  pour  country  for  holding  master-classes  and  other  activities  are  being  carries  out. Kazakh  doctors  are coming  back  from  the  countries  like  Turkey, Singapore, Israel, Russia, Lithia, Belarus  having  ironed  their  professional  competences. Nevertheless, the health care system of our country needs about 4 thousand doctors  yet.

    Human resource issue in the field of health care is still in hot talk. We are lack of specialists. In 2009 the shortage  of  specialists  amounted  to  6 thousand  people , in  2010 it  amounted  to 5 thousand;. At present  time  4 thousand  doctors  are needed Since 2007 year 30 percent  of gate  of year  state  grants  have  been given  students  who  entered. Medical universities in 2007 after 8 years of studding  will go  to  rural  areas  right  away. From 2008 such order of admission  to medical  universities  reached  up  to 50 thousand. It means by 2015 -2016 the situation  on supplying the rural  areas  with  doctors  will have been improved.