2236|BAROMETER ON THE HEALTH SYSTEM 1996-1997 (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. — Health insurance of which it is 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 center. — 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 he resorted to public and private health. — Time that has elapsed since you last used a public health service and a private one. Main reasons for its use. — Specialty that he 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: consultations 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. — Public health services in which you believe or know that there are waiting lists. — Knowledge of the actions being carried out by the health authorities to improve waiting lists. Opinion on the actual reduction of the lists that are being achieved through these measures. — Groups of patients most benefited by measures to improve waiting lists — Preference between entering a private clinic or waiting to enter a public hospital in the event that you were on a waiting list for an operation. — Opinion on the maximum waiting time to enter a hospital in the case of a non-urgent operation. — Knowledge about the presentation (working group) that is being carried out in Parliament on the National Health System. — Opinion on whether the same degree of unanimity among the parties that was reached on the issue of pensions should be achieved. Opinion on the feasibility of this consensus. — Degree of importance of different measures to improve the National Health System. — According to different phrases about the financing, quality, universality and services of our health system. — Three most important problems of the Spanish health system. — Agreement with phrases related to medicines and public pharmaceutical spending. — Agreement that public health only finances medicines that, at the same quality, are less expensive. Position on the possibility for health authorities to require doctors to prescribe medicines at a lower cost. — Position on the possibility that medicines that serve to cure the same ailment but at a higher cost can be obtained by paying the difference compared to the cheapest. — Number of complaints submitted to public health. — Last complaint submitted, type of health center and reason for the complaint, complaint procedure used and resolution thereof. — Reason for never filing a complaint. — Scale of political ideology. — Social status of the interviewee and head of household. — Number of people living in the interviewee’s home.