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The quality of Syrian healthcare services during COVID-19: A HEALTHQUAL approach
Syria is a developing country that face enormous healthcare challenges that aggravated with the outbreak of COVID-19. In the study, we evaluate the perceived healthcare service quality based on hospital type, public and private, using five HEALTHQUAL dimensions. We find that service quality in Syria...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9403656/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36033782 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.970922 |
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author | Allahham, Lilas Mouselli, Sulaiman Jakovljevic, Mihajlo |
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description | Syria is a developing country that face enormous healthcare challenges that aggravated with the outbreak of COVID-19. In the study, we evaluate the perceived healthcare service quality based on hospital type, public and private, using five HEALTHQUAL dimensions. We find that service quality in Syrian private hospitals is perceived better that in public hospitals. However, neither type of hospitals scores exceptionally high in any of the examined HEALTHQUAL dimensions. On the contrary, both hospitals score extremely low in the Improvement dimension. We argue that crowdedness environment, medical staff availability and their low salaries, pricing policies as well as the health insurance system, are to blame for such low perceived quality. |
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spelling | pubmed-94036562022-08-26 The quality of Syrian healthcare services during COVID-19: A HEALTHQUAL approach Allahham, Lilas Mouselli, Sulaiman Jakovljevic, Mihajlo Front Public Health Public Health Syria is a developing country that face enormous healthcare challenges that aggravated with the outbreak of COVID-19. In the study, we evaluate the perceived healthcare service quality based on hospital type, public and private, using five HEALTHQUAL dimensions. We find that service quality in Syrian private hospitals is perceived better that in public hospitals. However, neither type of hospitals scores exceptionally high in any of the examined HEALTHQUAL dimensions. On the contrary, both hospitals score extremely low in the Improvement dimension. We argue that crowdedness environment, medical staff availability and their low salaries, pricing policies as well as the health insurance system, are to blame for such low perceived quality. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-08-11 /pmc/articles/PMC9403656/ /pubmed/36033782 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.970922 Text en Copyright © 2022 Allahham, Mouselli and Jakovljevic. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Public Health Allahham, Lilas Mouselli, Sulaiman Jakovljevic, Mihajlo The quality of Syrian healthcare services during COVID-19: A HEALTHQUAL approach |
title | The quality of Syrian healthcare services during COVID-19: A HEALTHQUAL approach |
title_full | The quality of Syrian healthcare services during COVID-19: A HEALTHQUAL approach |
title_fullStr | The quality of Syrian healthcare services during COVID-19: A HEALTHQUAL approach |
title_full_unstemmed | The quality of Syrian healthcare services during COVID-19: A HEALTHQUAL approach |
title_short | The quality of Syrian healthcare services during COVID-19: A HEALTHQUAL approach |
title_sort | quality of syrian healthcare services during covid-19: a healthqual approach |
topic | Public Health |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9403656/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36033782 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.970922 |
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