scholarly journals Realization of Contracts for Providing Health Care Services Such as Health Resorts in 2019

2020 ◽  
Vol 62 (4) ◽  
pp. 250-256
Author(s):  
Arkadiusz Kosowski ◽  
Barbara Jabłońska ◽  
Konrad Kifert
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
National Health ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Health Fund ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Treatment Services ◽  
National Health Fund ◽  
Medical Referrals ◽  
Health Resorts ◽  
Branch Office

Introduction: Health treatment services in health resorts are a specific type of health care services in the Polish health protection system. In the context of performing the services, this specificity should be indicated in the rules for referring patients to treatment in health resorts. Referrals to treatment or rehabilitation in health resorts must be confirmed by the voivodeship branch office of the Fund, which is competent for the place of residence of the respective beneficiary. By confirming referrals, the voivodeship branch office of the National Health Fund specifies, inter alia, the type, place and date of the treatment. Therefore, it should be pointed out that the process in which the National Health Fund confirms referrals to treatment in health resorts is an important factor impacting the performance of treatment services in health resorts. Material: In order to inform about the performance of health care services in health resorts in 2019, the National Health Fund analysed the data by taking into account, inter alia, quantitative and value data (the value and number of registered medical referrals), medical data (the basis of the referrals, treatment profile, and scope of services), and statistical data (age and sex). Conclusions: From the analysis containing the above mentioned data, which is performed by the National Health Fund, results that the largest age group being treated in health resorts is the group aged from 56 to 65 years, which accounts for 41.03% of the total group of beneficiaries. On the other hand, the smallest groups is comprised of beneficiaries aged from 19 to 40 years, i.e. 1.39% of the total group of beneficiaries. This means that there is a significant disparity in the performance of treatment in health resorts between different age groups. Disparities may also be noticed in the performance of medical referrals to treatment in terms of sex, i.e. women account for 63.67% and men for just 36.33%.

scholarly journals Analysis of mental health care services provided to children and youth in 2010-2016 on the basis of the National Health Fund data

2020 ◽  
Vol 54 (5) ◽  
pp. 877-895
Author(s):  
Blanka Skrzypkowska-Brancewicz ◽  
Małgorzata Janas-Kozik ◽  
Marta Anczewska ◽  
Katarzyna Kucharska ◽  
Daria Biechowska ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
National Health ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
Health Fund ◽  
Care Services ◽  
National Health Fund

Health System in Poland

2017 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-112
Author(s):  
Daniel Ślęzak ◽  
Przemysław Żuratyński ◽  
Klaudiusz Nadolny ◽  
Marlena Robakowska ◽  
Alicja Kalis
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care System ◽  
National Health ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Health Care Systems ◽  
State Budget ◽  
Right To Health Care ◽  
Health Fund ◽  
National Health Fund ◽  
Care System

Health care systems face challenges related to the technological advances in medicine, demographic changes and limited opportunities for growth funding for health, necessitating greater involvement in the search for more efficient systems. The authors present the functioning of the Polish health care system based on social, historical outline of the healthcare system in Poland and the functioning of the National Health Fund (NFZ). Poland has undergone many reforms of the health care system, the Bismarck model, the model Siemaszko, and finally to a model of universal health insurance. So everyone has the same right to health care services financed by the NFZ or directly from the state budget (eg. The system of state emergency medical services). The National Health Fund allows anyone insured to free healthcare and reimbursement of medicines. Introduced information about information programs.

scholarly journals Assessment of satisfaction and utilization of health-care services by National Health Insurance Scheme enrolees at Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, Kano, Nigeria

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Abubakar Yusuf ◽  
Abubakar M. Jibo ◽  
Sanusi Abubakar ◽  
Bukar A. Grema ◽  
Auwal U. Gajida ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Insurance ◽  
Access To Care ◽  
National Health Insurance ◽  
National Health ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
National Health Insurance Scheme ◽  
Service Improvement ◽  
Insurance Scheme ◽  
Care Services

The National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) aims at universal health coverage through access to high-quality health-care to all enrolees. To achieve this goal, it is necessary to incorporate feedbacks from periodic patient-surveys into service improvement plans. This study therefore, assessed satisfaction and utilization of health-care services by enrolees of a Nigerian tertiary hospital. This was a crosssectional study of 399 respondents randomly selected from enrolees attending the NHIS-clinic of Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, Kano. Using an intervieweradministered questionnaire, it assessed their sociodemographics, medical history, number of and reason for clinic visits, satisfaction with- access to care, patient-provider relationships and hospital facilities/environment. Respondents’ mean age was 38.3 ± 9.2 years and females accounted for 55.9% of respondents. Most respondents (60.4%, 69.8%, 96.0%) were satisfied with the ease of accessing care, waiting-time and hospital facilities/environment respectively. Most respondents (94.8%, 81.1%, 73.3%, 74.5%, 83.1%, 91.1%) were satisfied with their relationship with physicians, nurses, laboratory staff, pharmacists, record officers and other hospital-staff respectively. Overall, 80.5% of respondents were satisfied with the hospital’s services. All respondents had visited the clinic at least once in the preceding 12-weeks. Although 49.1% visited for non-communicable diseases, more respondents who were for antenatal-care (followed by non-communicable and communicable diseases) had had ≥ 2 clinic visits (c2 =15.5%, df=2, P=0.0001). This study observed a high utilization of and overallsatisfaction with the hospital’s services; however, there is a need for service improvement plans to address the challenges of patient access to care and waitingtime.

Equity in the Use of Health Care Services by Immigrants in the Spanish National Health Care System

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 211-230
Author(s):  
Dolores Jiménez Rubio
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care System ◽  
National Health ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Population Census ◽  
National Health Care ◽  
National Health Care System ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Care System

The increasing proportion of immigrants in the Spanish society is creating pressures for the National Health Care System to accommodate the needs of this population group while keeping their costs under control. The Spanish health care system establishes that all people, regardless of their nationality, should be entitled to use health care services with the same conditions as Spanish citizens provided that they are registered in the local population census. Empirical evidence about differences in health status or utilisation between immigrant and Spanish-born population is however insufficient. This study uses the 2003 Spanish National Health Survey to explore whether non-Spaniards, for the same level of need, use health care services at the same rate as national citizens. The findings suggest that the nationality of an individual is an important predictor of health care utilisation, independent of other factors. These results may indicate horizontal inequity in the utilisation of health care with respect to nationality.

Trends in social class inequalities in the use of health care services within the Spanish National Health System, 1993–2006

2011 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-219 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laia Palència ◽  
Albert Espelt ◽  
Maica Rodríguez-Sanz ◽  
Katia B. Rocha ◽  
M. Isabel Pasarín ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Health System ◽  
National Health ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
National Health System ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Spanish National Health System ◽  
Use Of Health Care
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