ABSTRACT
The aim of a health system and the priority of any government is to anticipate problems before they appear, provide an innovative response to these new needs and healthcare models, improve access of the general public and patients to health care, especially care for the most vulnerable groups, improve healthcare results and implement the structural reforms necessary to maintain a viable and sustainable quality public healthcare system for everyone. In the current environment, health systems are facing new economic, demographic, care, social, technological and political paradigms to which health policy must respond. Faced with these challenges, health systems, especially in the case of Catalonia, are challenged to take decisions on how best to approach the implementation of structural reform designed to facilitate the necessary economic and fiscal sustainability in the service of fresh and innovative health policies and patient-centred care within a system marked by excellence and equity.
Subject(s)
Economic Recession , Health Policy , Health Services Accessibility/organization & administration , National Health Programs/organization & administration , Quality of Health Care/organization & administration , Health Policy/economics , Humans , Program Evaluation/economics , SpainABSTRACT
El objetivo de un sistema de salud y la prioridad de un gobierno es la de anticiparse a los problemas, dar respuestas innovadoras a las nuevas necesidades y modelos de atención, mejorar la accesibilidad de los ciudadanos y pacientes al sistema sanitario, atender especialmente a los colectivos más vulnerables, mejorar los resultados de salud y hacer las reformas estructurales necesarias para mantener viable y hacer sostenible una sanidad pública de calidad para todos. En el contexto actual, los sistemas de salud se enfrentan a nuevos paradigmas en ámbitos como el económico, demográfico, asistencial, social, tecnológico y político, a los que las políticas de salud deben dar respuesta. Frente a estos retos, los sistemas de salud, y en el caso de Cataluña en concreto, tienen el reto de tomar decisiones sobre cómo orientar las reformas estructurales que posibiliten la sostenibilidad económica y presupuestaria necesarias al servicio de unas nuevas políticas de salud innovadoras y centradas en la persona en un sistema marcado por la excelencia y la equidad (AU)
The aim of a health system and the priority of any government is to anticipate problems before they appear, provide an innovative response to these new needs and healthcare models, improve access of the general public and patients to health care, especially care for the most vulnerable groups, improve healthcare results and implement the structural reforms necessary to maintain a viable and sustainable quality public healthcare system for everyone. In the current environment, health systems are facing new economic, demographic, care, social, technological and political paradigms to which health policy must respond. Faced with these challenges, health systems, especially in the case of Catalonia, are challenged to take decisions on how best to approach the implementation of structural reform designed to facilitate the necessary economic and fiscal sustainability in the service of fresh and innovative health policies and patient-centred care within a system marked by excellence and equity (AU)
