TY - JOUR
T1 - Attitudes to primary-care gynaecology among family physicians and gynaecologists in Israel
AU - Weingarten, Michael A.
AU - Reinitz, Ayala
AU - Hart, Jacob
PY - 1992/3
Y1 - 1992/3
N2 - A postal questionnaire was sent to a random sample of Israeli gynaecologists and family physicians to study their attitudes to primary care gynaecology. The gynaecologists (n = 50) tended to think that family physicians should not be involved at all, except for adolescent sex education. The family physicians (n = 60) thought that they should be managing menstrual disorders, vaginal discharges, family planning counselling, prescription of oral contraceptives, insertion of intrauterine devices, routine antenatal and postnatal care, sexually transmitted diseases, breast examinations, and menopausal counselling. Both professions agreed that high risk pregnancies, hospital deliveries, infertility, and PAP smears were in the gynaecologists' domain. The younger family physicians and those in rural practice held these views more strongly than their older colleagues in urban practice. The results are discussed in the light of the patients' and the doctors' diverse interests.
AB - A postal questionnaire was sent to a random sample of Israeli gynaecologists and family physicians to study their attitudes to primary care gynaecology. The gynaecologists (n = 50) tended to think that family physicians should not be involved at all, except for adolescent sex education. The family physicians (n = 60) thought that they should be managing menstrual disorders, vaginal discharges, family planning counselling, prescription of oral contraceptives, insertion of intrauterine devices, routine antenatal and postnatal care, sexually transmitted diseases, breast examinations, and menopausal counselling. Both professions agreed that high risk pregnancies, hospital deliveries, infertility, and PAP smears were in the gynaecologists' domain. The younger family physicians and those in rural practice held these views more strongly than their older colleagues in urban practice. The results are discussed in the light of the patients' and the doctors' diverse interests.
KW - Family physicians
KW - Gynaecology
KW - Obstetrics
KW - Physicians' practice patterns
KW - Primary health care
KW - Women's health services
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U2 - 10.3109/02813439209014033
DO - 10.3109/02813439209014033
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C2 - 1589662
AN - SCOPUS:0026522470
SN - 0281-3432
VL - 10
SP - 36
EP - 41
JO - Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care
JF - Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care
IS - 1
ER -