Strenthening public health functions in azerbaijan through community oriented primary care training

17th World congress on Public health , Rome, İtalya, 2 - 06 Mayıs 2023, ss.497, (Özet Bildiri)

Strenthening public health functions in azerbaijan through

community oriented primary care training

Hande Harmanci1, Belgin Unal2, Bulent Kilic3, Mestan Emek3, Oyku Turunc4,

Kevser Vatansever5, Sevgi Turan1, Halil Durak6

1WHO Country Office of Azerbaijan 62 Uzeyir Hajibeyov str. Marine Plaza,

5th floor. Baku AZ-100 Azerbaijan, 2WHO Country Office of Azerbaijan Dokuz

Eylul University Faculty of Medicine Depar tment Of Public Health 62 Uzeyir

Hajibeyov str. Marine Plaza, 5th floor. Baku AZ-100 Azerbaijan, 3Dokuz Eylul

University of izmir Dokuz Eylul University Faculty of Medicine Depar tment

Of Public Health, Inciralti, Izmir, Turkiye Turkey, 4Akdeniz University Faculty

of Medicine Dept of Public Health Ak deniz University of Antalya Akdeniz

University Faculty of Medicine Dept of Public Health, Antaly a Turkey, 5Mardin

Health Authority, MoH Turkiye Turkey, 6WHO Country Office of Azerbaijan 62

Uzeyir Hajibeyov str. Marine Plaza, 5th floor. Baku AZ-100 Turkey

Background and Aim: WHO Country Office in Azerbaijan in collaboration with

Ministry of Health, developed a general strategy to strengthen the public health

policy framework, service delivery and public health capacity in Azerbaijan.

Community oriented primary care (COPC) is a strategy that elements of primary

health care and public health are systematically developed and brought together in

a coordinated practice. The aim of this work is to present the use of COPC training

as a starting point for public health capacity development in Azerbaijan.

Methods and Results: A public health capacity group was selected from the

applicants to an advert, by a panel of representatives from the MoH, TABIB,

Mandatory Health Insurance Agency, and WHO-Azerbaijan Office. A 5-day face-toface

COPC training was organized in Baku on 14-18 November 2022. The training

included one field visit for observing the community, 7 interactive lectures on

principles of COPC, 3 group works on practicing the skills of COPC and 3 group

presentations and discussions.

The training was evaluated with a self-evaluation form that the participants

scored their competency on community characterization, interpretation of

health indicators, prioritization, detailed assessment, intervention planning and

evaluation using 1 to 10 Likert score, anonymously at the beginning and end of

the training. Wilcoxon test was used for statistical analysis.

Results: In total 20 participants took part in the training. For all six items of the

self-evaluation form, the scores given at the end of the training was higher than

the initial scores (p˂0.01 for all six items).

Conclusion: COPC training is a useful method in teaching basic skills needed to

address the health problems of a defined community and gives participants to

use their existing knowledge and experience together with the new knowledge

and skills.

Popul. Med. 2023;5(Supplement):A1753

DOI: 10.18332/popmed/164327