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Barriers to routine checkups use among Saudis from the perspective of primary care providers

A qualitative study

Ali M. Alzahrani, Baraa S. Quronfulah, Holly C. Felix and Asim A. Khogeer
Saudi Medical Journal June 2022, 43 (6) 618-625; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2022.43.6.20220090
Ali M. Alzahrani
From the Department of Health Services Management and Management (Alzahrani); from the Health Promotion and Health Education Department (Quronfulah), Faculty of Public Health and Health Informatics, Umm Al-Qura University; from the Research Department (Khogeer), The Strategic Planning, General Directorate of Health Affairs; from the Medical Genetics Unit (Khogeer), Maternity & Children Hospital, Makkah Healthcare Cluster, Ministry of Health, Makkah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; and from the Department of Health Policy and Management (Felix), University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Arkansas, United States of America.
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Baraa S. Quronfulah
From the Department of Health Services Management and Management (Alzahrani); from the Health Promotion and Health Education Department (Quronfulah), Faculty of Public Health and Health Informatics, Umm Al-Qura University; from the Research Department (Khogeer), The Strategic Planning, General Directorate of Health Affairs; from the Medical Genetics Unit (Khogeer), Maternity & Children Hospital, Makkah Healthcare Cluster, Ministry of Health, Makkah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; and from the Department of Health Policy and Management (Felix), University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Arkansas, United States of America.
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Holly C. Felix
From the Department of Health Services Management and Management (Alzahrani); from the Health Promotion and Health Education Department (Quronfulah), Faculty of Public Health and Health Informatics, Umm Al-Qura University; from the Research Department (Khogeer), The Strategic Planning, General Directorate of Health Affairs; from the Medical Genetics Unit (Khogeer), Maternity & Children Hospital, Makkah Healthcare Cluster, Ministry of Health, Makkah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; and from the Department of Health Policy and Management (Felix), University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Arkansas, United States of America.
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Asim A. Khogeer
From the Department of Health Services Management and Management (Alzahrani); from the Health Promotion and Health Education Department (Quronfulah), Faculty of Public Health and Health Informatics, Umm Al-Qura University; from the Research Department (Khogeer), The Strategic Planning, General Directorate of Health Affairs; from the Medical Genetics Unit (Khogeer), Maternity & Children Hospital, Makkah Healthcare Cluster, Ministry of Health, Makkah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; and from the Department of Health Policy and Management (Felix), University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Arkansas, United States of America.
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vol. 43 no. 6 618-625
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2022.43.6.20220090
PubMed 
35675932

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Saudi Medical Journal
Online ISSN 
1658-3175
History 
  • Received February 9, 2022
  • Accepted May 17, 2022
  • Published online June 7, 2022.

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Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an Open Access journal and articles published are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (CC BY-NC). Readers may copy, distribute, and display the work for non-commercial purposes with the proper citation of the original work.

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  1. Ali M. Alzahrani, PhD, MSHSA⇑,
  2. Baraa S. Quronfulah, PhD, MPH,
  3. Holly C. Felix, PhD, MPA and
  4. Asim A. Khogeer, PhD, MSc.
  1. From the Department of Health Services Management and Management (Alzahrani); from the Health Promotion and Health Education Department (Quronfulah), Faculty of Public Health and Health Informatics, Umm Al-Qura University; from the Research Department (Khogeer), The Strategic Planning, General Directorate of Health Affairs; from the Medical Genetics Unit (Khogeer), Maternity & Children Hospital, Makkah Healthcare Cluster, Ministry of Health, Makkah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; and from the Department of Health Policy and Management (Felix), University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Arkansas, United States of America.
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Ali M. Alzahrani, Department of Health Services Management, Faculty of Public Health and Health Informatics, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: amazahrani{at}uqu.edu.sa ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8849-9675
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Ali M. Alzahrani, Baraa S. Quronfulah, Holly C. Felix, Asim A. Khogeer
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