Introduction: The Ministry of Health of Peru (MINSA) is implementing policies and strategies to ensure equitable access to care, timeliness and quality. Sufficient human resources (RHUS) properly distributed in the different levels of care is needed to accomplish this. Thus, it is essential to adequately estimate the gap of RHUS, especially at primary care level. Objectives: To develop, validate and implement a district population dispersion index (IDP) characterizing the district, and to provide dispersion in estimating RHUS gap at primary care level. Design: Observational and analytical study. Location: Directorate General Management Human Resources Development MINSA, Peru. Participants: All districts of Peru were considered for analysis. Interventions: An exploratory factor analysis was performed. It considered demographic, social and economic access to health services, obtained from ...

The implementation of the Health Sector Reform in Peru, aims to improve the health status of residents in the country, recognizing that health is a fundamental right and that the State guarantees the protection of health for all persons without any discrimination at all stages of life; in this context, the Ministry of Health placed in the center of interventions addressing the problems in the field of human resources based on strategic planning, information system in human resources - National Register of Personal - INFORHUS, the methodological development of the estimation of gaps in health personnel and the development of strategies for recruitment and retention of staff, with priority for primary care, skills development in primary health care as management services and the health system, increase of seats SERUMS, Residentado, Internship, and the reactivation of the National School of...