Title: Assessment of Inhabitants’ Health Care Needs in Local Community
Abstract: Objective: To identify the inhabitants’ needs for primary health care (PHC) from the local community in Attiki, Athens. Method: Two methods were used. For the data collection of quantitative analysis a designed, self administered questionnaire was used, based on random sampling, from April to August 2013. The sample size was 430 inhabitants from five municipalities. In the qualitative analysis was implemented a semi-structured personal interviews and content analysis, from February to March 2015. 10 out of 430 respondents were chosen to participate. Results: According to the results of the quantitative analysis, respondents suggested activities of public health (75.8 %), care for disabled and elderly people (74.3 %), prevention and health education (74.3 %) and care for patients with long-term illnesses (65.6 %). The willingness to pay local taxes in order to establish a local primary health networks is moderate (51.2 %). Moreover the results of qualitative analysis showed that the respondents would pay local taxes for PHC services provided by local authorities, if they were be awarded of services quality in advance. Conclusion: Respondents believe that local authorities could organize successfully health prevention, health education programmes and establish home care services for patients with chronic diseases. Inhabitants’ willingness to pay local taxes for PHC services is moderate due to the fact that they are sceptical about the quality of service.
Publication Year: 2016
Publication Date: 2016-09-27
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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