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标题：Assessing Primary Care in Croatia: Could it be Moved Forward?
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作者：Vrcić Keglević, Mladenka ; Kovačić, Luka ; Pavleković, Gordana 等
期刊名称：Collegium Antropologicum
印刷版ISSN：0350-6134
出版年度：2014
卷号：38
期号：Supplement 2
页码：3-9
语种：English
出版社：Hrvatsko antropološko društvo
摘要：It is well known that countries with strong primary care achieve better health outcomes at lower costs. Therefore, the effort of World Health Organization in promoting primary care as a basic principal of successful health care system is an ongoing process. Although Croatia was recognized as a country with primary care orientation due to the development of health centers and introduction of specialist training of general practitioners, it seems that many health care reforms aimed at better organization of health institutions and decreasing of health care costs did not result with higher primary care orientation. By application of the Primary Care Score instrument in 2014 (Croatia received 11.2 out of 20 possible points), and international comparison performed in 2002, it was concluded that among the eighteen OECD countries Croatia could be categorized as an »intermediate primary care country«, obtaining the scores just a bit above the average.
关键词：primary care; health assessment; primary care score instrument; public health; Croatia