The evaluation of patients' and doctors' opinion about the preventive programmes financed by the finances / resources from mandatory health insurance fund

Aim of the study. To research and evaluate the opinion of patiens and doctors about the preventive programs funded from mandatory health insurance fund. Objectives. Identify the way of how the patients are informed about preventive programs carried out at the center of primary health care; Evaluate the opinion of patients and doctors about the preventive programs carried out at the center of primary health care; Identify the connections between informativeness and opinions about carried out preventive programs and patients social- demographic characteristics. Methods. Anonymous type question survey of patients from public organization „X“ district municipality primary health care (n=377) and qualitative survey of doctors (n=5). Statistical data analysis carried out by using SPSS 17 version packet and Microsoft Office excel 2007 programme. Results: 370 patients was questioned during the survey of which, the overage of the age was 53 years old. Mostly the patients get information on their visit time to the doctor, less then every tenth of the patients are informed by the phone, by email, letter or ect. Most of the patients the attention to preventive programs of primary health care center evaluates just as overage. Doctors thinks, that the work of primary health care center, related to permormance and organization of preventive programs, rates possitive. Conclusions. Statistically significant way to the patients of getting the information about preventive programs is during their visit time to the doctor; Identified, that the biggest part of questioned patients rates as average the preventive programs performed at the primary health care institution, doctors of primary health care center based on existing situation the preventive programs rates positively (good); mostly the patients heard about cervix cancer, least heard about prostate cancer, about heart and blood-vessels programe and a rectum cancer patients would like to know more