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The Catalan health care model |
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are going to establish a sanitary model (Catalan Health System) that
integrates and prioritizes the public health (including work and environmental
health), the sanitary attention, the health services and the social
services of dependence attention. A new model adapted to the needs
of everybody: citizens, professionals, managers, politicians, all.
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 ur health care model was established in 1990 under the LOSC (the Health Care Organisation in Catalonia Act), which created the Catalan Health Service and consolidated a mixed health system that belonged to Catalonia and extended the model to all the areas of health care products and health services. |
| It was a mixed health care model that integrated in a single network the public use of all health resources, regardless of whether they were publicly owned, and which brought together a tradition of organisations (health care funds, foundations, consortiums, Church-run centres) historically devoted to health care. |
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This integration model was initiated with the public hospital network (PHN). The model was then extended from the PHN to other lines (primary, social health, mental health) and other health services (emergencies, health transport).
CatSalut is born, the fundamental axis of the Catalan Health Care
CatSalut, the Catalan Health Service, was establish in January 1991 as the Official |
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entity to plan, assess and purchase Health Services.
At present, CatSalut is the guarantor of Public Health Services. The Central Government Health Department is responsible for planning and evaluating as well as developing the project of Health Care Decentralisation, which has allowed the town councils to be incorporated in Local Health Management.
CatSalut purchases and evaluates the Health Care depending on the population necessities. In doing so it assumes, on one hand, the responsibility of the supply and demand and on the other hand, the communication with the population and their participation.
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