2318|HEALTH BAROMETER 1999 (FIRST WAVE)

— Area considered to be of greatest interest to citizens: defence, education, health, housing, pensions, transport or citizen security — Opinion on the Spanish health system — Health insurance of which you are the holder or beneficiary — Type of health card held: individual or family booklet — Possibility of going to more than one doctor of general medicine, in the case of being a beneficiary on more than one card or Social Security card — Knowledge of the name of the general medical doctor who usually treats you in the public primary care facility — Type of medical service, public or private, that you would use in case you need to go to: general medicine/pediatrics, specialist consultations, hospital admission and emergencies. Service used the last time you used public health to the private — Time that has elapsed since you last used a public health service and a private one. Main reasons for its use — Specialty to which she attended the last time this year, in public and private health — Scale of satisfaction with various aspects of the care received in public health in the consultation of general medicine/pediatrics, in specialised care and in hospitals — Stay of the interviewee or a member of the household in a public hospital. Assignment of a doctor responsible for your illness. Time that has elapsed since the last time you were admitted to a public hospital — Scale of assessment of the information provided by public health services — Number of complaints submitted to public health. Last complaint submitted, type of health center and reason for complaint, complaint procedure used and resolution thereof. Reason for never filing a complaint — Opinion on the amount of public pharmaceutical expenditure in the last year — Agreement with the reduction of public pharmaceutical expenditure for the benefit of other health services — Entities in which the control of public pharmaceutical expenditure should fall — Knowledge of different measures developed by the Ministry of Health and Consumer Affairs to rationalise pharmaceutical expenditure: promote the use of generic medicines, set reference prices for certain medicinal products, adapt the contents of packaging to the necessary doses and intakes, exclude certain medicinal products and agree with laboratories and pharmaceutical industry — Opinion on the degree of effectiveness of the marketing of generic medicines in rationalising pharmaceutical expenditure — Opinion on the volume of generic medicines that currently exist in Spain — Opinion on whether the Ministry of Health and Consumption should encourage the pharmaceutical industry to develop generics — Opinion on the degree of obligation that the Health Administration should impose on Social Security doctors in the prescription of generic medicines — Opinion on whether pharmacists should inform us of the existence of generic drugs alternative to the medicine we request — Behavior (acceptance or rejection) you would have in a hypothetical situation in which the doctor prescribes a generic medicine — Purchase or administration of a generic medicinal product: information they gave you about the drug and difficulty in obtaining — Knowledge of the medicines that are or are not generic in the following list: amoxicillin, captopril, ciprofloxacin, paracetamol, diclofenac, acetyl salicylic acid, insulin, nifedipine and ranitidine. Ways You Have Learned They Are Generic Drugs — Knowledge of the project of the Ministry of Health and Consumption known as ‘Project on Reference Prices’ aimed at rationalising public pharmaceutical expenditure. Means by which you have been aware of this project. Opinion on the project and on the impact it will have on the reduction of public pharmaceutical expenditure — Opinion on the greater influence that pharmacists can have on the choice of drug with the existence of generic medicines and the start-up of reference prices — Attitude that you would adopt if the reference prices were already in force and the doctor prescribed a more expensive drug — Opinion on who are responsible for informing the population about these measures and projects — According to different phrases on the financing of public health and the habits of doctors and the general population — Scale of political ideology of the interviewee