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The Catalan health care model |
"We
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.
Marina Geli". Health and Social Security Minister.
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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 was established as the basic axis of the Catalan health care model.
CatSalut, the Catalan Health Service, was established in January |
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1991 as the tool to plan, fund, assess and purchase health services.
CatSalut is currently defined as the public health service cover provider in Catalonia and guarantees the provision of health services to the public. CatSalut plans, purchases and assesses health services according to the population's needs, developing an integral management of supply and demand and providing communication channels with citizens, allowing for their participation.
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