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Algeria

Population (2017, M): 41.32

Income per Capita, (2018, USD): 4825.20

Percentage of GDP on Healthcare, (2015): 7.06



training

Year family medicine was established: Unknown

Type of Training: No formal training exists within the country’s medical institutions.

Length of Training: No formal training.

Number of institutions that offer family medicine: Zero Institutions offer family medicine training in this country.

Number of family medicine residents graduating each year: None since there exists no formal training within the country.



practice

Family doctor to patients ratio: 24,381 family physicians in the public sector and 9,000 in the private sector.

Physician to population ratio: 132 physicians per 100,000 individuals.

Other primary care deliverers: Specialists, Nurses, and Pharmacists.

Role of family physician:

Gatekeeping:

Model of primary care used:

DALY: 16,114 per 100,000 individuals (Due to all Causes).

Life Expectancy:

  • Females 2017: 77.6 years

  • Males 2017: 75.1 years

Mortality rate 2017:

  • 2017 Males: 104 per 1,000 male adults.

  • 2017 Females: 82 per 1,000 female adults.

Infant Immunization-HepB3: % of 1-year-old children received: 91%

College of Family Physicians (Y or N):

  • Yes: Algerian Society of General Medicine.

 
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healthcare system

There is both public and private sectors in Algeria with the public sector making up 60% of all Services and healthcare provided to the citizens.