2416|HEALTH BAROMETER 2001 (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 — Scale of satisfaction with the functioning of the Spanish health system — Health insurance of which you are the holder or beneficiary — 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 — Frequently with which he has attended in the last year a consultation of general medicine or public and private paediatrics. Knowledge of the name of the general medical practitioner who usually treats you in the public primary care facility. If you have not attended in this last year: time that has elapsed since you last used a public health service and a private one — Frequency with which you have come, the interviewee or a member of your household, in the last year to: a primary care emergency service, a specialist or has been hospitalised, in public or private services. If you have not attended in the last year: time that has elapsed since the last time you came — In case of hospitalisation in the last year: assignment during hospital stay of a responsible doctor — Frequently with which you have gone to an emergency department of a hospital in the last year, private or public. Main reason. Time elapsed since the last time he attended, if it had not been in the last year — Scale of satisfaction with various aspects of the care received in public health in the general medicine/pediatric consultation, in specialised care and in hospitals Grado according to phrase on whether GPs spend enough time talking to their patients — Scale of assessment of the information provided by public health services — Opinion on whether there are currently waiting lists in public health for: specialist consultations, diagnostic tests, hospital admission for surgical operation or hospital admission for diagnosis and treatment without operation Opinion on whether health authorities are carrying out measures to improve waiting lists — Opinion on the evolution of waiting lists in the last year — Opinion on equal health care for all citizens irrespective of: the autonomous community of residence, the age, the area (rural or urban) in which it resides, the social level and the severity of the disease — Opinion on the evolution in recent years of: primary care, specialised outpatient care and hospital care — Opinion on the degree of demand of Spaniards with regard to health services compared to ten years ago — Opinion on who should mainly cover the care needs of the elderly or chronically ill: state or family — Knowledge of different social and health services aimed at the elderly and chronically ill — Opinion on what form of healthcare is best for an older person with a chronic illness — Sufficiency of the services that currently exist to care for elderly people with chronic diseases. Services that you believe should be created, if you feel that they are insufficient — Opinion on the evolution in the near future of the care that children currently provide to their parents — Importance of different measures that the Public Administrations could take to help people who are dependent on the elderly or chronically ill in their family — Knowledge of the various measures developed by the Ministry of Health and Consumer Affairs to reduce the importance of pharmaceutical spending — Knowledge about what are the ‘reference prices’ of medicines. Means by which you knew what it was and attitude you would adopt in the event that your doctor prescribed a drug more expensive than the reference price — Knowledge about what ‘generic medicines’ are. Definition of the same, by which he knew what it was — Opinion on the volume of generic medicines currently in the Spanish market — Buy some generic medicine on occasion. Person who recommended that purchase. If it was your doctor: information given by the doctor and possession of a problem to acquire it in the pharmacy — Opinion on whether the existence of generic medicines should be reported in pharmacies — Attitude that you would adopt if the doctor prescribed generic drugs. Reason for that attitude — Evaluation of health expenditure on pharmaceutical products in the last year — Attitude towards possible measures of the health authorities aimed at reducing pharmaceutical spending so that this money can be allocated to other items — Agreement with different phrases on the financing of medicinal products — Attitude to the increase in health expenditure in recent years. Opinion on how this increase in expenditure should be financed — Phrase with which he agrees more about how health spending could be reduced — Opinion on whether the patient should be informed about the cost of their medical care — Opinion on who should pay for health services and medicines — Attitudes to the health expenditure produced by the care of the elderly — Attitude to the assumption that health costs should be reduced: patients should pay a small amount at each visit to the GP or nothing should be paid. Attitude in the case of persons over 65 years of age — Current situation of coexistence