SOUTH KAZKHSTAN DOCTOR’S ASSESSMENTS ABOUT THE FACTORS, DETERMINING THE QUALITY OF CARDIOLOGICAL CARE TO URBAN AND RURAL POPULATION

The article deals with study of opinions of doctors, providing medical care to patients with circulatory system diseases, about factors, defining quality of aid and its efficacy. There are 298 doctors, 24.5% of whom, lived in the regional centre, 26.5% - in other cities, 26.6% - in the district centers and 22.4% - in rural areas in South Kazakhstan, took part in the sociological research. The results of ques-tionnaire showed that 69.4% of respondents were satisfied overall with their activities. Meanwhile, 7.1% of respondents were completely unsatisfied with their activity. The main reasons of unsatisfaction with their professional activity were low pay, heavy workload and lack of the time for self-study in the specialty. According to majority of respondents, the lack of funding (59.2 on 100 respondents) have influence on quali-ty of cardiologic care. More rarely respondents mentioned understaffing of doctors, unsufficient level of doc-tor’s qualification and poor material and technical base. The comparative analysis showed that the signifi-cance of the influence of these factors on the quality of cardiologic care to the rural patients was different. The majority of respondents also mentioned the lack of funding (55.1 on 100), poor material and technical base (65.3) and understaffing of doctors (58.2).