Έρευνα για τις αντιλήψεις των πολιτών και των ιατρών, σχετικά με τις προτεραιότητες στο ελληνικό σύστημα υγείας
Research about the preferences of the members of the public and health professionals for setting priorities of Greek health system
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National health services -- Greece ; Health care rationing -- Greece ; Medical policy -- Greece ; Health planning -- Greece ; Health policy -- Greece ; Εθνικό Σύστημα Υγείας (Ελλάδα) ; Εθνικά συστήματα υγείας -- Ελλάδα ; Πολιτική υγείας -- Ελλάδα ; Πολιτική υγείας -- Οικονομικές απόψειςAbstract
The present research reports on a priority-setting exercise Involving members of the public and health professionals. The main aim is to compare the healthcare priorities of these two groups, as well as their attitudes towards public involvement in priority setting. A sample of 300 members of the public and 100 health professionals completed an anonymous questionnaire. Both groups were asked whether their preferences should inform priority-setting decisions. Then they had to allocate an amount of 10.000.000€ across three Prevention Programmes, three Surgical Interventions and three Healthcare Programmes for different population groups. Moreover both the members of the public and health professionals were asked about whose preferences they would most like to be used to inform different types of priority-setting choices. In both groups, the majority expressed a strong preference for using their preferences to inform priority-setting decisions in healthcare. The members of the public expressed a stronger preference for using their preferences to inform priorities across prevention programmes and healthcare programmes for different population groups, than for surgical interventions. On the other hand, health professionals preferred prevention programmes and surgical interventions than population groups. The majority of respondents also felt that the preferences of other groups in society should be elicited. Respondents were asked to rank in order of importance, whose preferences (doctors, patients and their families, politicians, health managers) should be used to inform different priority-setting decision. Both groups gave doctors and patients with their families, a higher ranking across all levels of priority-setting. The only difference between members of the public and health professionals concerns the surgical interventions, where health professionals gave health managers a higher ranking. Politicians were least to be nominated as the most important contributors to priority-setting in healthcare. Both groups allocated more funds to cardiac bypass graft, to 10.000 people who had an average monthly household income of 10.000€ and also to 10.000 people who had an average life expectancy of 60 years. The difference between two groups, is about the allocation of 10.000.000€ across three prevention programmes. The members of the public allocated more funds to the anti-smoking campaign. In contrast, the health professionals allocated more funds to the behavioural training programme. Finally both groups'gave' more funds to children. However members of the public 'gave' babies the second position, while health professionals 'give' the second position to working adults.
Postgraduate Studies Programme
Οικονομικά και Διοίκηση της ΥγείαςDepartment
Σχολή Οικονομικών, Επιχειρηματικών και Διεθνών Σπουδών. Τμήμα Οικονομικής ΕπιστήμηςCorporate Department
Ανώτατο Εκπαιδευτικό Ίδρυμα Πειραιά Τεχνολογικού ΤομέαNumber of pages
128Language
GreekCollections
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