Provider perspectives on general practice in Henan, China: a mixed-methods study

Zhu, Jiming; Ariana, Proochista

According to our findings among the PIT's surveyed, more than 60% think that GPs' main responsibility is public health work (Table 4) , as shown by Participant 7 in Quote 8 (Table 3) . Some do not agree, such as Participant 1 who remind Participant 7 that "you are a doctor" which means you should do clinical work rather than paperwork. Nonetheless, Participant 1's understanding of public health is not appropriate either. Great caution is needed to decipher how they interpret public health. Meanwhile, most PITs, although asserting GPs' main responsibility is public health, do not agree that GPs' main role is prevention rather than diagnosis/treatment of disease (Table 4 ). However, township hospital doctors are more likely than the medical students or residents surveyed to consider a GPs main role to be prevention. It is fair to say that the PITs have a vague understanding of both general practice and public health. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59