What patients think about choice in healthcare? A study on primary care services in Finland
Background: The ongoing Finnish health and social service reform will expand choice by opening the market for competition between public and private service providers. This study examined the attitudes of primary care patients towards choice and which patient-related factors are associated with these attitudes. Methods: A sample of attenders during one week in health centres of 12 big cities and municipal consortiums (including seven outsourced local units) and in primary care units of one private company providing outsourced services for municipalities (aged 18-95, n=8128) was used. The quest... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2020 |
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SAGE Publications Ltd STM
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Schlagwörter: | Choice / primary care / sociodemographic factors / use of health services / health status / PROVIDER CHOICE / WAITING-TIMES / SYSTEMS / SATISFACTION / NETHERLANDS / ACCESS / IMPACT / 515 Psychology / 3142 Public health care science / environmental and occupational health |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27606454 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://hdl.handle.net/10138/311506 |