The Spanish National Health System (SNS)
What is the Health Card?
Document issued by each Health Service that identifies each citizen as a user throughout the NHS. Each person, regardless of age, must have a health card. It is valid for 4 years.
What do you mean by Integrated Health Care?
It is one of the essential principles assumed by the Spanish health care system and is based on the promotion, prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation.
How is Healthcare a Redistributive Income Policy in Spain?
Each person contributes taxes depending on their income and receives services according to their health needs.
Enumerate Health Benefits that Citizens May Receive from SNS.
- Primary Care
- Specialty Care
- Pharmaceutical Service Provision
- Health Transport
- Orthoprosthetic & Dietary Products
- Information and Documentation Services
Differentiate Between Primary Care and Specialized Care.
Primary activities focus on health promotion, health education, and disease prevention. The health center lends itself as the patient’s home. Specialized care includes assistance activities, diagnostic, therapeutic and rehabilitation, and care. Its delivery is done in clinics and hospitals.
What Pharmaceutical Benefits Differentiate Primary Care from Other NHS Services?
Pharmaceutical services are provided in both. The difference lies in Orthoprosthetic and other products that are financed by users in other NHS services.
Define the Following Items, Indicating the Type of Delivery:
- Palliative Care: Primary Health Care (Patient Care Terminal)
- Prenatal Diagnosis: Specialty Care
- Interventional Radiology: Specialty Care
- Informed Consent: Provision of Information Services and Health Documentation
- Enteral Nutrition: Special Care
The Price of a Drug is 35.40€. How Much Would the 15-Year-Old Son of a Pensioner Pay for It? What if the Child Was Older?
The pensioner’s son, being a minor, would receive the drug for free. A person 30 years old would pay 40% of the total amount of the drug if they are financially independent of their retired parent. If they are financially dependent (not employed), they would not pay anything (0%).
List the Skills of the Health Ministry.
Propose and implement government guidelines on health policy, planning, and health care.
Define the Following Terms:
- Department of Health: The Department of Community Health divides regions into several health areas, establishing boundaries along geographic, cultural, socioeconomic, and demographic lines. There must be at least one area per province. Each area serves a population of 200,000 to 250,000.
- Basic Health Areas: Each of these health areas is, in turn, subdivided into smaller health areas.
- Interregional Council: Body in charge of information, communication, and coordination between the Health Services of the Autonomous Community and the State Administration.
- Health Plan: A health plan covering all health measures required to meet the objectives of the respective health services. Health plans are developed in phases:
- Analysis of the health situation of the population.
- Identifying problems.
- Definition of objectives and interventions in relation to priority problems.
- Definition of criteria for evaluating these interventions.
- Health Services: Each Autonomous Community Health Service comprises all facilities, services, and establishments of the autonomous region, organized by the Ministry of Health, which also has jurisdiction on policy development on health, hygiene, security management, and social pharmacy.
- General Health Act (SNS): Adopted on April 25, 1986 (Law 14/1896), its purpose is the general regulation of all actions to enforce the right to health protection as recognized in Article 43 of the Constitution.
- Healthcare System: A set of organizational structures, facilities, services, and activities in the public and private sectors that aim to meet the health needs of the population.
- IMSERSO (Institute of Migration and Social Services): Responsible for managing social services and non-contributory pensions, which are granted to those over 65 years old residing in Spain, lacking sufficient financial resources to survive, and not entitled to receive contributory pensions due to never having contributed or not having contributed long enough to Social Security.
- INSALUD: Previously responsible for managing and administering health services in Social Security. Currently, it manages healthcare only in those communities that have not yet assumed control of their healthcare competencies. It is managed by the Ministry of Health.
- ISFAS: Special arrangements for health insurance for the military.
- Instituto Salud Carlos III: A public health and biomedical research institution that receives scientific and technical support from the Ministry of Health and various health services of the Autonomous Communities. It has laboratories for Microbiology, Virology, and Pharmacy. It also includes the National Center for Epidemiology, National School of Health, and the Health Research Fund. Since July 2008, it has been under the Ministry of Science and Innovation, while still advising the Health Ministry.
- National Institute for Consumer: An organism that promotes and advances the rights of consumers and users.
- INSS: Responsible for managing economic benefits related to Social Security: pensions, permanent disability, temporary disability, allowances, etc.
- MUGEJU: Special arrangements for health insurance for judicial officials.
- National Insurance Institute: The general manager of all the aforementioned insurance schemes that had previously emerged in a disorganized manner.
- SNS: An organism that integrates various public health subsystems that were previously scattered. It is a coordinated set of health services of the various autonomous communities, established by the Constitution.
- MUFACE: Special arrangements for health insurance for public officials.
Features of the Beveridge Model of Social Security
Some features of this model are: financing through public taxes, freedom of access for all citizens, management by the government, and parliamentary control.
List the Health Powers of the Town Council.
Town Councils have significant expertise in health matters such as:
- Control of environmental effects on individual health: pollution, water, urban and industrial waste, noise, and vibration.
- Control of public buildings, including sports centers, schools, etc.
- Control of the distribution chain of food and beverages.
- Control of cemeteries.
Define the National Drug Plan
One of the functions of the central government this plan with the policies being promoted reduction of drug demand and treatment program, rehabilitation and harm reduction for health. 14 – How would you HEALTH PLAN?. NAMES ITS VARIOUS STAGES. Each Autonomous Community should develop a health plan covering all health measures required to meet the objectives of the respective health services. Health plans covered by their development phases, “Analysis of the health status of the population.In-identification problems. Definition of objectives and interventions related to priority problems. Definition of criteria for evaluating these interventions