training

Year of family medicine established: 2007 (Arya et al., 2017) 

Type of Training: As of 2019, there is a residency program in family medicine and a bachelor's program in Community Health (Pan American Health Organization, 2019)

Length of Training: As of 2019, the residency in Family Medicine lasts 3 years and the degree in Community Health lasts 4 years (Pan American Health Organization, 2019)

Number of institutions that offer family medicine: 2 (As of 2020, there is approval and operation at the Catholic University of Honduras Nuestra Señora Reina de la Paz (UNICAH) and the National Autonomous University of Honduras.

Number of Trainees: unknown

practice

Number of Family Physicians: unknown

Number of Physicians: In 2015, there were 10,995 registered physicians (Carmenate Milian, et al., 2017) 

Physician to population ratio: As of 2017, 0.3 physicians per 1,000 people (World Bank, 2022)

DALY: 20,009 per 100,000 individuals (Due to all Causes).

Life Expectancy:

• Females 2017: 76.3 years

• Males 2017: 71.2 years

Mortality rate 2017:

• 2017 Males: 170 per 1,000 male adults.

• 2017 Females: 117 per 1,000 female adults.

Infant Immunization-HepB3: % of 1-year-old children received: 90%

College of Family Physicians (Y or N):

• Yes: Honduras Medical College

training

There are 3 stages or university levels. (State University, n.d.). After three or four years of study, an individual will earn a university first degree or a licentiate. To specialize in medicine, students have to work for three years after they complete six years of undergraduate work, then complete a final comprehensive examination.

practice

In addition to physicians, there are also nurses (Rennert & Koop, 2009) in Honduras. The medical staff work 8 hours a day, where they must attend to a maximum of 36 patients (Carmenate Milian, et al., 2017). In Honduras, they have used the same model of health and social protection for more than 50 years. A new health model reform in Latin America covers four major areas of change: reorganization or structural fragmentation systems, decentralization, optimization of regulatory functions and separation of financing. Separation of financing is mainly seen in the Honduras model (Carmenate Milian, et al., 2017).