Cameroon
Population (2017): 24.05 M
Income Per Capita (2018): 1446.70 US
Percentage of GDP on Healthcare (2015): 5.11
training
Medical school involves 7 years of schooling which translates to 14 semesters. Access to medical specialization is done by national competitions for Cameroonian candidates and foreigners from States that have signed an agreement of cooperation with the Republic of Cameroon (excluding admission quotas).
practice
Number of family doctors in a country (2018): 0, (Besigye, Innocent, MD).
Physician to population ratio (2010): 190 physicians per 100,000 inhabitants, (“Health Statistics.”).
DALY: 45,774 per 100,000 individuals (Due to all Causes).
Life Expectancy:
Females 2017: 59.7 years
Males 2017: 57.5 years
Mortality rate 2017:
2017 Males: 341 per 1,000 male adults.
2017 Females: 317 per 1,000 female adults.
Infant Immunization-HepB3: % of 1-year-old children received: 79%
College of Family Physicians (Y or N):
NO
Healthcare System
The health care system in Cameroon involves three sub-sectors; (MEDCAMER – Cameroon Medical Doctors.”), a sub-public sector that includes public hospitals, a sub-private non-profit and for-profit sector that includes religious denominations, associations and various non-governmental organizations, and a sub-sector of the traditional medicine which is an important component of the system and is also structured in three levels of health which each has administrative structures, sanitary formations and structures for dialogues. There are approximately 1555, (Tantchou Tchoumi, Jacques Cabral, et al., 2013.), physicians in the public and/or private sector.
training
Cameroon does not have an established family medicine program. According to The Institute of Family Medicine (INFA-MED), the Baptist Convention Healthcare Ministries in Cameroon are interested in establishing a family medicine program at Banso Baptist Hospital. However, there is not enough information as to when this program will come to fruition, (INFA-MED, 2016)
practice
* Unfortunately no further information could be found on family medicine practice in this country.