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London 2001 Conference Abstracts: Ch. Sevilla et al.

Christine Sevilla*, François Eisinger**, Jean-Paul Moatti* Do gene patents linit the diffusion of genetic testing? The case of DNA tests for breast cancer susceptibility * INSERM U379, Marseille, France ** E9939, Marseille, France Introduction Hereditary Breast/Ovarian Cancers (HBOC) are presently known to represent 5 to 10% of all breast/ovarian cancers and 84% of these hereditaryContinue reading “London 2001 Conference Abstracts: Ch. Sevilla et al.”

London 2001 Conference Abstracts: E. Zebiene

Egle Zebiene Patient satisfaction with health care services in changing socio-economic environment Vilnius University Centre of General Practitioners Egle Zebiene Patient satisfaction as an indicator of quality of health care services, is now being introduced into the health care system in Lithuania. Health care providers become more interested in the consumer�s opinion, considering patient satisfactionContinue reading “London 2001 Conference Abstracts: E. Zebiene”

London 2001 Conference Abstracts: H. Beiras et Manuel Martín

Hixinio Beiras*, Manuel Martín** Understanding, explaining, organising and occasionally succeeding: recent experiences promoting opposition to neoliberal counter reform in Spain *Cardiologist in Vigo, president of Galician Regional NHS Defence Association (AGDSP, member of Federación de Asociaciones para la Defensa de la Sanidad Pública, FADSP) **Specialist in Family and Community medicine in Marín, Pontevedra, Secretary ofContinue reading “London 2001 Conference Abstracts: H. Beiras et Manuel Martín”

London 2001 Conference Abstracts: G. Barro et al.

Giovanni Barro, Antonello Briguori, Mara Giglioni, Rita Manfroni, Maurizio Mori, Osvaldo Palumbo, Carlo Romagnoli, Elisabetta Rossi, Stefania Piacentini Micro and Macro-privatisation are obscuring the sky of the italian National Health System Equi.Jus Association, Perugia Regional Health Service of Umbria A national health service (SSN) was applied in Italy in 1978 with the law 833. TheContinue reading “London 2001 Conference Abstracts: G. Barro et al.”

London 2001 Conference Abstracts: M. Johansson et al

Mauri Johansson & Timo Partanen Trade Unions in workplace safety- and health promotion. With focus on cooperation between workers and academics in promoting health Public Health Partner, Denmark Finnish Institute of Occupational Health Mauri Johansson, MD, Denmark Since the middle of the nineteenth century, workers have organized in unions and parties to strengthen their effortsContinue reading “London 2001 Conference Abstracts: M. Johansson et al”

London 2001 Conference Abstracts: M. Bayle et al (2)

Marciano S. Bayle, Carlos Ponte, Manuel Martin, Hixinio Beiras and Felix Payo Social Movements against the privatization policy of the National Health Service in Spain Federacion de Asociaciones para la Defensa de la Salud Publica, Spain During the last years several social movements of general people have been produced, inside and outside of the healthContinue reading “London 2001 Conference Abstracts: M. Bayle et al (2)”

London 2001 Conference Abstracts: D. Gannik

Dorte Gannik Is General Practice trapped? Reflections on health care, liberalisation and research priorities Central Research Unit for General Practice, Panum Institute, Copenhagen Dorte Gannik, Assoc.Professor, DscSoc For a while, reforms with a liberal tendency have been discussed with regard to health care in Denmark. Today, health care is largely a public responsibility. 81% ofContinue reading “London 2001 Conference Abstracts: D. Gannik”

London 2001 Conference Abstracts: M. Bayle et al.

Marciano S. Bayle, Carlos Ponte, Manuel Martin, Hixinio Beiras and Felix Payo The privatization policy of the National Health Service in Spain Federacion de Asociaciones para la Defensa de la Salud Publica, Spain Spain is endowed of a powerful National Health Service with free and universal coverage, with a high degree of equity as theContinue reading “London 2001 Conference Abstracts: M. Bayle et al.”

London 2001 Conference Abstracts: A. Benos et al.

Alexis Benos*, Stathis Giannakopoulos**, Theodore Zdoukos***, The ongoing health services reforms by the greek social-democratic governement: a fast way backwards *Assistant Prof In Social Medicine, **General Practitioner, Research Fellow, ***General Practitioner, Secretary of the Union of Physicians working in the NHS Laboratory of Hygiene & Social Medicine, Medical Dept, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Contact:Continue reading “London 2001 Conference Abstracts: A. Benos et al.”

London 2001 Conference Abstracts: E. Bejerot

Eva Bejerot and Hans Hasselbladh Quality systems in Swedish Health Services: Examination and confession technologies National Institute for Working Life School of Economics and Commercial Law S-112 79 Stockholm Box 610, S- 40530 Gothenburg Eva Bejerot e-mail Hans Hasselbladh e-mail A Swedish law was passed in 1996, which stipulated that appropriate quality systems should beContinue reading “London 2001 Conference Abstracts: E. Bejerot”