SURVEY OF PRIMARY CARE PHYSICIAN’S ATTITUDES ON

A survey based on a confidential questionnaire addressed to one doctor from every primary health care centre from Iasi district. The GPs ’ attitudes in surveillance of certain communicable diseases and their opinions on the existing system were investigated. The results were compared with an objective evaluation of the same diseases based on eight criteria. In this study, GPs were more interested in surveillance of severe diseases, with or without high incidence (i.e. tuberculosis, hepatitis, HIV-infection or sexually transmitted diseases) and less interested in diseases which are not specific to this study area (West Nile infection) or those having rare occurrence or being eliminated as a result of the vaccination (pertussis and respectively diphtheria). The same diseases were found on the top of the list resulted from the analysis per criteria. Some demographic characteristics (i.e. location of the practice, age of the doctor or proportion of the children in the assisted population) influenced the GPs ’ choices they made in this exercise on epidemiological surveillance of communicable diseases