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Indicating Fields of Inequalities Regarding the Access to Health Benefits: Summary of Watch Health Care Foundation's Three-Year Activity

Indicating Fields of Inequalities Regarding the Access to Health Benefits: Summary of Watch Health Care Foundation's Three-Year Activity
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Author(s): Krzysztof Landa (Watch Health Care Foundation, Poland), Karolina Skora (Watch Health Care Foundation, Poland)and Iwona Zaczyk (Watch Health Care Foundation, Poland)
Copyright: 2014
Pages: 15
Source title: Advancing Medical Practice through Technology: Applications for Healthcare Delivery, Management, and Quality
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Joel J.P.C. Rodrigues (Senac Faculty of Ceará, Fortaleza-CE, Brazil; Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-4619-3.ch002

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Abstract

Restrictions to health services in Poland inspired the establishment of the Watch Health Care Foundation (WHC). The fundamental disease of the system is the disproportion between the amount of the funds and the contents of the package. It causes the same “symptoms” and leads to the same pathological phenomena everywhere: queues and other forms of rationing (“guaranteed”) health benefits, corruption, and making use of privileges. The foundation uses the potential of the information society and available infrastructure (Web portal, www.watchealthcare.eu), and all activities are presented on the Website with the aim of influencing the health care system. On the basis of reports of limited access to health services, a registry of patient problems was created in the WHC Web portal, which aims to show what the biggest gaps in access to health services are – this is a way of showing the patient and health care system the needs and also one possible approach to continuous education of the health care service consumers targeted at health care system improvement.

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