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Workplace Violence and Sanctioning of Family Medicine Physicians Due to the Rules of Health Insurance Funds in the Western Balkan

INTRODUCTION: After family medicine’s famous beginnings in the early 60’s through introduction of the world’s first family medicine specialization, with transitional changes and war also come changes in former Yugoslavia’s healthcare systems. AIM: The primary aim of this article is to analyze freque...

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Autores principales: Pekez-Pavlisko, Tanja, Racic, Maja, Gavran, Larisa, Pavlic, Danica Rotar, Sukriev, Ljubin, Zivanovic, Slavoljub R., Jurisic, Dinka
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Publicado: AVICENA, d.o.o., Sarajevo 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6690306/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31452633
http://dx.doi.org/10.5455/msm.2019.31.99-104
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author Pekez-Pavlisko, Tanja
Racic, Maja
Gavran, Larisa
Pavlic, Danica Rotar
Sukriev, Ljubin
Zivanovic, Slavoljub R.
Jurisic, Dinka
author_facet Pekez-Pavlisko, Tanja
Racic, Maja
Gavran, Larisa
Pavlic, Danica Rotar
Sukriev, Ljubin
Zivanovic, Slavoljub R.
Jurisic, Dinka
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description INTRODUCTION: After family medicine’s famous beginnings in the early 60’s through introduction of the world’s first family medicine specialization, with transitional changes and war also come changes in former Yugoslavia’s healthcare systems. AIM: The primary aim of this article is to analyze frequency and causes of sanctioning of family physicians by Health insurance funds in the countries of former Yugoslavia. The secondary aim is to evaluate frequency and types of workplace violence family physicians experienced due to insurance boundaries for patients. METHODS: The comparative, cross-sectional survey was carried out from October 2017 to February 2018. Study participants were general practitioners’ (GPs), family physicians (FPs) and those without a specialty designation but providing family medicine services in one of the five Western Balkans countries: Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia, Macedonia and Bosnia and Herzegovina (B&H). The questionnaire was designed for the purpose of the study. RESULTS: Forty-nine percent of participating physicians have been sanctioned by Health Insurance Fund and 77. 5% has been exposed to workplace violence. The most common type of violence was verbal (76.6%). Financial penalties according to the scale had the highest rates in Macedonia (73.9%) and Slovenia (43.9%). CONCLUSION: It is necessary to educate creators of healthcare policies, doctors and patients for the purpose of establishing partner relations which would lead to strengthening of primary healthcare, but also to a more efficient healthcare system.
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spelling pubmed-66903062019-08-26 Workplace Violence and Sanctioning of Family Medicine Physicians Due to the Rules of Health Insurance Funds in the Western Balkan Pekez-Pavlisko, Tanja Racic, Maja Gavran, Larisa Pavlic, Danica Rotar Sukriev, Ljubin Zivanovic, Slavoljub R. Jurisic, Dinka Mater Sociomed Original Paper INTRODUCTION: After family medicine’s famous beginnings in the early 60’s through introduction of the world’s first family medicine specialization, with transitional changes and war also come changes in former Yugoslavia’s healthcare systems. AIM: The primary aim of this article is to analyze frequency and causes of sanctioning of family physicians by Health insurance funds in the countries of former Yugoslavia. The secondary aim is to evaluate frequency and types of workplace violence family physicians experienced due to insurance boundaries for patients. METHODS: The comparative, cross-sectional survey was carried out from October 2017 to February 2018. Study participants were general practitioners’ (GPs), family physicians (FPs) and those without a specialty designation but providing family medicine services in one of the five Western Balkans countries: Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia, Macedonia and Bosnia and Herzegovina (B&H). The questionnaire was designed for the purpose of the study. RESULTS: Forty-nine percent of participating physicians have been sanctioned by Health Insurance Fund and 77. 5% has been exposed to workplace violence. The most common type of violence was verbal (76.6%). Financial penalties according to the scale had the highest rates in Macedonia (73.9%) and Slovenia (43.9%). CONCLUSION: It is necessary to educate creators of healthcare policies, doctors and patients for the purpose of establishing partner relations which would lead to strengthening of primary healthcare, but also to a more efficient healthcare system. AVICENA, d.o.o., Sarajevo 2019-06 /pmc/articles/PMC6690306/ /pubmed/31452633 http://dx.doi.org/10.5455/msm.2019.31.99-104 Text en © 2019 Tanja Pekez-Pavlisko, Maja Racic, Larisa Gavran, Danica Rotar Pavlic, Ljubin Sukriev, Slavoljub R. Zivanovic, Dinka Jurisic http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Pekez-Pavlisko, Tanja
Racic, Maja
Gavran, Larisa
Pavlic, Danica Rotar
Sukriev, Ljubin
Zivanovic, Slavoljub R.
Jurisic, Dinka
Workplace Violence and Sanctioning of Family Medicine Physicians Due to the Rules of Health Insurance Funds in the Western Balkan
title Workplace Violence and Sanctioning of Family Medicine Physicians Due to the Rules of Health Insurance Funds in the Western Balkan
title_full Workplace Violence and Sanctioning of Family Medicine Physicians Due to the Rules of Health Insurance Funds in the Western Balkan
title_fullStr Workplace Violence and Sanctioning of Family Medicine Physicians Due to the Rules of Health Insurance Funds in the Western Balkan
title_full_unstemmed Workplace Violence and Sanctioning of Family Medicine Physicians Due to the Rules of Health Insurance Funds in the Western Balkan
title_short Workplace Violence and Sanctioning of Family Medicine Physicians Due to the Rules of Health Insurance Funds in the Western Balkan
title_sort workplace violence and sanctioning of family medicine physicians due to the rules of health insurance funds in the western balkan
topic Original Paper
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6690306/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31452633
http://dx.doi.org/10.5455/msm.2019.31.99-104
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