2544|HEALTH BAROMETER 2003 (SECOND WAVE)

— Area considered to be of greatest interest to citizens: defense, 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. — Existence of sufficient ways of participation to give an opinion on the functioning of the public health system. — Health insurance of which it is the holder or beneficiary. — Need for healthcare outside the autonomous community of residence and type of identification document. — Participation in possible meetings to express the opinion on the functioning of public health services. — Assistance to the doctor of general medicine or pediatrics, emergencies, consultations of specialists and admission to a hospital in the last year, and frequency (number of times) and type of medical service, public or private, that you have used. — Current and retrospective assessment of the care received from the public general practitioner or pediatrician, from the public specialist, and in the public hospital. — 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. — Main reason and cause why he has gone to an emergency department of a public hospital in the last year. — In case of hospitalisation in a public hospital in the last year: main cause for which he was admitted and assigned during the hospital stay of a responsible doctor. Receipt of information: on the waiting time from the reporting of surgical treatment to hospitalisation, and on the risks of treatment. Opinion on the sufficiency of information received. — Sensitivity of information about the state of health of the interviewee. — 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. — According to the need to control pharmaceutical spending. — Knowledge of different measures developed by the Ministry of Health and Consumer Affairs to control pharmaceutical expenditure. — Knowledge about what ‘generic medicines’ are. Attitude that you would adopt in the event that your doctor prescribes a generic medication. — Opinion on the measure of establishing reference prices for medicinal products. — Self-medication of the interviewee. — Responsible for the control of the fame expenditure. — Degree of protection against food safety through administrative controls. — Influence of food, exercise, alcohol and tobacco in the prevention of serious diseases. — Medical advice regarding food, exercise, tobacco and alcohol to prevent serious diseases and their follow-up by the user. — Opinion on equal health care for all citizens irrespective of: the autonomous community of residence, the age, the area (rural or urban) in which you reside and the social level. — Opinion on the evolution in recent years of: primary care, specialised care consultation and hospital care. — Comparison of the health services you receive in the community of residence with others. — Comparison between the health service provided by the community or by the State. — Agreement between the Autonomous Communities to provide new health services. — Household size, and existence of disabled in the home. — Nationality of the interviewee. ONLY IN AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITIES WITH TRANSFERRED HEALTH COMPETENCES: — Knowledge of the responsibility of health skills to your community.