Mozambique
Population (2017): 29.67 M
Income Per Capita (2018): 519 US
Percentage of GDP on Healthcare: 5.35
training
Mozambique does not have an established family medicine program. (Besigye, Innocent, MD), Mozambique is experiencing physician shortage. The family medicine training program is not considered a specialty due to lack of financial resources and lack of understanding of the specialty. Mozambique’s next step would be to understand the importance of implementing a family medicine program, and perhaps this will also help fix the physician shortage.
practice
Number of family doctors in a country (2018): 0 (Besigye, Innocent, MD).
Physician to population ratio (2017): There are only 3 doctors per 100,000 people - a proportion that is among the lowest in the world (“Global Health | Mozambique).
DALY: 48,090 per 100,000 individuals (Due to all Causes).
Life Expectancy:
Females 2017: 61.0 years
Males 2017: 56.7 years
Mortality rate 2017:
2017 Males: 344 per 1,000 male adults.
2017 Females: 273 per 1,000 female adults.
Infant Immunization-HepB3: % of 1-year-old children received: 80%
College of Family Physicians (Y or N):
NO
Healthcare system
The healthcare system is mixed (public and private). (“Healthcare in Mozambique - Support | Allianz Care.”), It is unknown how many physicians are in the private and/or public sector.
Training:
Although family medicine is not yet established in this country there are still medical schools. High school is required and medical school entails 7 years of medical education followed by four years of residency. There is currently a lack of physicians in general in the country due to lack of funding and different barriers that prevent the delivery of medicine and the availability of physicians.