Paediatria Croatica, Vol. 58 No. 4, 2014.
Izvorni znanstveni članak
https://doi.org/10.13112/PC.2014.54
Health care system in the domain of Early Childhood Intervention
Tena Matijaš
; Centar za rehabilitaciju Zagreb
Jasmina Ivšac Pavliša
Marta Ljubešić
Sažetak
Inspired by the current state of Early Childhood Intervention in the Republic of Croatia and the needs of families, the Croatian Association
for Early Childhood Intervention has initiated development of a unique database of the Early Childhood Intervention services
at the national level. Creating a database aims to provide easy access to comprehensive and reliable information about services in
the fi eld of Early Childhood Intervention provided in the Republic of Croatia in the preschool education, health care and social
welfare systems. This paper presents data obtained in the public and private health care institutions in order to get an insight into the
current state of service delivery in the fi eld of Early Childhood Intervention all over Croatia. Data were collected through questionnaire
in the form of Internet application. The sample consisted of 41 public health care institutions and 32 private institutions registered
in the health care system. Results indicated abidance of centralization of institutions that provide services in the fi eld of Early
Childhood Intervention within the health care system in the City of Zagreb. At the same time, no statistically signifi cant diff erences
were found among counties and diff erent kinds of disabilities, professionals and services provided. Comparison between public and
private health care institutions showed the structure of the employees as well as the type of services at private institutions to be
closer to the contemporary concept of early intervention. Namely, their focus is on the child and their parents rather than on the
motor aspect of the child’s development. Private sector brings what public sector does not off er, but parents have to pay for services
in the former.
Ključne riječi
delivery of health care; early intervention; databases as topic; developmental disabilities; child; family
Hrčak ID:
142375
URI
Datum izdavanja:
23.12.2014.
Posjeta: 3.549 *