Public health services: reading their available reports
Por:
Lobato-Pajares, MT, Villalbi, JR
Publicada:
1 may 2019
Resumen:
The objective of this study is to analyze the performance of regional public health services in Spain using the information accessible in their annual reports. A search of these was conducted, and 9 were obtained from the 17 Autonomous Communities. Their analysis shows some variation in the structure of the organizations providing public health services, as well as in the published contents and in the indicators used for management. The service portfolio, annual objectives and resources allocated are not always detailed. If the evaluation of public services and its dissemination are basic for transparency and quality management, there is much room for improvement. The compilation of annual reports by public health services is not systematic, and those that exist provide insufficient information for a comparative analysis of their activity, effectiveness and efficiency. (C) 2018 SESPAS. Published by Elsevier Espana, S.L.U. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
Filiaciones:
Lobato-Pajares, MT:
Agencia Salut Publ Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
Univ Pompeu Fabra, Dept Ciencies Expt & Salut, Barcelona, Spain
Villalbi, JR:
Univ Pompeu Fabra, Dept Ciencies Expt & Salut, Barcelona, Spain
Agencia Salut Publ Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
CIBERESP, Barcelona, Spain
Inst Invest Biomed St Pau, Barcelona, Spain
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