Job Satisfaction on Primary Health Care Providers in the Rural Settings

Abstract

Background: Job satisfaction remains as an important concern for both employer and employee. The leaving of work­place and migration to city centers is one of the main results of Job dissatisfaction among the primary health care (PHC) provid­ers in rural setting of Iran, Behvarzes. Determining the predictor's factors of the PHC providers' job dissatisfac­tion and provid­ing appropriate strategies to address these factors can most likely improve their performance and dimin­ish the prob­lem.
Methods: Data were collected from 290 of the PHC providers worked full-time in Kurdistan rural health-house by a sur­vey for identifying the individual, environmental, and work factors that influence job satisfaction.
Results: Only 17% of the participants' overall job satisfaction was high. Furthermore, the developed model presented sta­tistically significant differences between job satisfaction and village population size, satellite villages covered, and dis­tance between health-house and city center.
Conclusion: It is expected that the finding of the study can help Iran health system policymakers and managers for plan­ning and implementing effective policies in order to meet the PHC providers' needs and so improve quality of pri­mary health care in the rural areas.