training

Year family medicine was established:

Type of Training: over 90% of practitioners don’t have training beyond medical school graduation (WHO, 2017)

Length of Training:

Number of institutions that offer family medicine: 2 (Osman et al., 2017)

Number of family medicine residents graduating each year: 29 (Osman et al., 2017)

practice

Family doctor to patients ratio: 1:407,228 (Osman et al., 2017)

Physician to population ratio: 66 per 100 000 (International Statistics, n.d.)

Other primary care deliverers:

Role of family physician:

Gatekeeping:

Model of primary care used:

DALY: 53,044 per 100,000 individuals (Due to all Causes).

Life Expectancy:

• Females 2017: 72.3 years

• Males 2017: 67.8 years

Mortality rate 2017:

• 2017 Males: 193 per 1,000 male adults.

• 2017 Females: 126 per 1,000 female adults.

Infant Immunization-HepB3: % of 1-year-old children received: 84%

College of Family Physicians (Y or N):

• YES: Iraq Family Physician Society

training:

Fourty-five percent of Iraq’s medical doctors are in fact general practitioners.