Original scientific paper
AWARENESS OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT REPRESENTATIVES ABOUT INSTRUMENTS OF QULITY MANAGEMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE
Vanesa Benković
; Media Metar d.o.o
Abstract
The use of correct data and information, on the basis of which financial and strategic decisions are made, is the basis for health care management, at government and local level. HZA research as well as later analyses have found that there are significant differences in health between Croatian regions. For strategic management of health and health methods the comparisons between regional, state and inter-state standardized indicators offer crucial information necessary for determining what is important, choosing priorities and establishing good “macro policies on micro level”. The purpose of this work was to examine how the results of Croatian health survey are used in resource planning in health care institutes in the Counties. The results have shown that only 32% of respondents used the results of HZA in their planning. The conclusion is that it is difficult to have an efficient planning on the local level with only 32% of respondents, and even more difficult to save as planned by the budget.
Keywords
health economics; instrument for measuring healt; health survey; health spending; health care
Hrčak ID:
41139
URI
Publication date:
22.6.2009.
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