Management of Public Health The assessment of patients right to choose primary health care institution in the context of competition Simona Stulpinaitytė Supervisor Prof., dr. Irayda Jakušovaitė Department of Social Medicine, Faculty of Public Health, Kaunas University of Medicine. Kaunas; 2005. 65 p. Aim of the study. To assess and compare patients possibility to use their right to choose primary health care institutions in the context of competition. Objectives. 1) To assess factors who determine the choice of private or public primary health care institution; 2) To compare patients opinion about services that are provided in public and private health care institutions; 3) To compare ethical problems in healh care in micro (doctor – pacient) level in public and private health care institutions. Methods. During the survey there were questioned 380 patients at the public and private health care institutions in Garliava. Response rate in public health care institutions was 81% and in private health care institution it was 84%. Statistical analysis was carried out using statistical package for social sciences - SPSS 11.5 for Windows. Associations between the variables were tested by Chi squared. Patients answers under provided services in public and private health care institutions were analyzed by measuring means that were compared using the Stujdent test (t). Significance level (p) less than 0,05 was considered as statistically significant (p<0,05). Results. The most... [to full text]