Priority Setting in the Polish Health Care System According to Patients’ Perspective

Anna Rybarczyk-Szwajkowska and Izabela Rydlewska-Liszkowska
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Anna Rybarczyk-Szwajkowska: Department of Management and Logistics in Health Care, Faculty of Health Sciences, Medical University of Lodz, 90-131 Lodz, Poland
Izabela Rydlewska-Liszkowska: Department of Management and Logistics in Health Care, Faculty of Health Sciences, Medical University of Lodz, 90-131 Lodz, Poland

IJERPH, 2021, vol. 18, issue 3, 1-8

Abstract: Identification of health priorities is concerned with equitable distribution of resources and is an important part of strategic planning in the health care system. The aim of this article is to describe health priorities in the Polish health care system from the patients’ perspective. The study included 533 patients hospitalized in the Lodz region. The average age of the respondents was 48.5 years and one third (36.6%) had university education. Most of the respondents (64.9%) negatively assessed the functioning of the health care system in Poland. Most of them claimed the following aspects require improvements: financing health services (85.8%), determining priorities in health care (80.3%), the role of health insurance (80.3%), and medical education (70.8%). Over 70% of the respondents agreed the role of politicians in designing and implementing health system reforms should be limited. The fact that the respondents so negatively assessed the Polish health care system implies there is a need for full discussion on redefining health priorities.

Keywords: setting priorities; health priorities; patients’ opinion; health care financing; health care system (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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