HEALTH SYSTEM
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"Health is the minimum obligation
of the state to the Greek people.
Who must be convinced that in a difficult moment it will
not be treated as a simple unit of account,
but as an invaluable value".
POLITICAL SPRING DECLARATION OF 30 JUNE 1993
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Health is a fundamental human right and a necessary prerequisite to ensure
conditions for the fulfilment and self-assertion of human life.
The achievement of this situation is: RESPONSIBILITY OF THE STATE.
Key axes of our philosophy for Health:
CITIZEN
The customer of the Health System is the Citizen, the needs, the desires but
also whose expectations must be taken seriously both in the establishment and in
the expansion and change of infrastructure, and Health and Welfare Services.
HEALTH SYSTEM
Access - Efficiency - Reliability - Quality - Continuity of Care
BASIC MISSION
The maintenance and improvement of the Health of Citizens and not only the
Treatment of the disease
This is achieved by:
- Lawsuit;
- Update;
- Prevention;
- Promotion.
1. PUBLIC HEALTH
Organization and operation of modern central, regional and prefectural Public
Health Services, the object of which is:
The control of health risk factors (social living conditions, environment, food,
workplaces, cohabitation spaces, etc.)
The elaboration, promotion and implementation of prevention, education and
health promotion programs
The treatment and promotion of the oral health of the population
Contributing to accident prevention
Epidemiological research
2. PRIMARY CARE
This is provided by:
The private sector (private practices, dental practices, polyclinics, etc.)
Outpatient clinics of hospitals
Health Centers and Rural Clinics.
For the latter, strong incentives are required for their staffing in order to
escape from their current rudimentary operation and efficiency.
Gradual development of the institution of mobile outpatient clinics
Development of an emergency care system using mobile medical units covering not
only the periphery but also the urban population of cities
Utilization of technology capabilities for the development of telemedicine
applications and the interconnection of clinics in remote areas with large
hospitals in the center.
The public and private sectors will participate with a relationship of
competition and functional interconnection, after the State clearly defines the
legislative framework under which they will operate.
3. SECONDARY (HOSPITAL) CARE
The Hospital today is the "big patient" of the health system.
Hospital reform is needed in which absolute priority must be given not to
quantitative but to qualitative improvement of Secondary care services.
And this presupposes, in principle, an improvement in hospital management.
Here, too, the public and private sectors must be involved with relationship of
competition and functional interconnection under the same terms and Conditions.
4.TERTIARY CARE
Strengthening the operation of regional university hospitals and the creation of
specialized medical centers (cardiac surgery, pediatric cardiac surgery,
neurosurgery, etc.), which will contribute to essentially addressing all kinds
of needs of the wider area in which they operate, but will also evolve (the
first) in important educational and research centers.
5.HEALTH OFFICERS
Upgrading the prestige of the Greek doctor and dealing with the great problems
that exist in the medical field (inflation of doctors, unequal distribution of
medical workforce, planning of workforce by specialty, degraded medical
education, obsolete medicine legislation, etc.)
At the same time, recognition of the contribution and upgrading of the role of a
of a series of professional sectors in the field of Health, with the predominant
Nursing Corps, as well as other specialties, such as Technologists Psychologists,
Occupational Therapists, etc.
6.RESEARCH
Strengthening the research infrastructure, which in our country is rudimentary,
because no health system can evolve and modernize without it.
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