Cordial saludo, 

Este viernes 21 de diciembre  se llevará a cabo la Septuagésima Novena sesión del  Seminario Interno FEN donde se exponen trabajos en progreso de académicos y avances de tesis de estudiantes.

Datos de las presentación:

Título: Public Preferences and Values for Priority in Health Care in Chile

Autores: Alicia Núñez Mondaca y Chunhuei Chi

Presenta: Alicia Núñez Mondaca

Introduction: This study aims to assess preferences and values for priority setting in national healthcare in Chile. Growing recognition of the importance of priority setting for healthcare as an ethical concern and as a way to allocate limited resources to meet population’s health needs has motivated this study.

Method: Based on the answers from a first survey that look into the main barriers the Chilean population face, this study considers the preferences of the communities to prioritize overcoming those barriers. The information for this study was collected using a population sample survey. This survey incorporated six programs that will allow the state to overcome the barriers previously identified. The programs included: (1) investing in new infrastructure, (2) providing better healthcare coverage, (3) increasing physicians/specialists, (4) adding new informatics systems, (5) promoting new awareness healthcare programs, and (6) financing additional drugs. People were asked to prioritize each of these programs; firstly by their opinion and secondly by allocating resources.

A second part in the survey asked people´s preferences for a distributive justice principle for healthcare to guide priority setting of services in Chile. They are: 1) equal access for healthcare, 2) equal access for equal health needs, 3) equal access for equal ability to benefit, and 4) equality in health. Four steps were followed: (1) selecting a representative sample for three regions in Chile, (2) piloting in a small-scale and revise the instrument, (3) administering the survey, and (4) analyzing the data using STATA 13.

El seminario se llevará a cabo a las 13:00 horas en la sala T-1605 de la FEN, se solicita confirmar asistencia con Pamela Fuentes (pamfuent@fen.uchile.cl), a más tardar el día viernes 20 de diciembre hasta las 13:00 horas, ya que el seminario contempla almuerzo.

Saludos cordiales,
Dirección de Investigación FEN.