Science & Healthcare

This article is dedicated to one of the urgent problems of modern health care - implementation of the principle of shared responsibility for the health of the population. The main results of the anonymous survey of health workers health clinics, as well as people of working age.

Methods. The survey was conducted in clinics in Karaganda. It was attended by 431 health workers and 733 people of working age. The survey results are processed using a package of StatSoft Statistica 8.

Results. Unlike health professionals working population considers the population responsible for their health. Unfortunately, more than half of the respondents found it difficult when answering this question. Approximately one in three health worker agree with the introduction of co-payments for medical services. The proportion of working age people answered positively to this question half. Revealed a strong correlation with the experience of work on this issue: health care workers, who have given a positive response, have work experience of over 20 years. On the positive side the introduction of co-payment mechanism, about half of the respondents say higher wages to medical workers. The negative side of the majority of respondents noted the infringement of the rights of social nezaschischienyh population.

Conclusions. By virtue of the profession and in close contact with the public, health care workers is a low degree of responsibility for the health of the population. Every other medical professional agrees with the introduction of a mechanism of co-payment for medical services. The proportion of people of working age, the answer is yes to this question is two times less. Every second citizen of working age, as well as one in three primary care worker expresses its readiness to introduce the mechanism of co-payments for medical services. Approximately half of all respondents believe that the introduction of co-payments for medical services will increase the responsibility of the population for their own health. More than half of respondents also note that these changes could adversely affect the health care of disadvantaged populations.