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Eberhard Mehl, Chief Executive of the German General Practitioners Association, in an interview with MVF:
01.06.2009
A look beyond the obvious with the Bertelsmann Foundation's Health Policy Monitor
01.06.2009
Frank Gotthardt, CompuGroup, in an interview with MVF:
01.06.2009
Direct contracts started out as discount contracts for pharmaceuticals. In the meantime, however, it is becoming apparent that they are covering more and more areas of care through general practitioner and specialist contracts. Everyone should benefit from these contracts: Health insurance companies have a better influence on the service, service providers receive better remuneration and patients better care. But it shouldn't cost more either. Whether this is successful can only be shown by means of health services research. It should also be noted that direct contracts must not put you in a worse position than standard care. This specification, which has received little attention in the previous discussion, is a steep template for health services research.
01.06.2009
In order to improve the supply situation for psychotherapy quickly and efficiently, the British Ministry of Health is investing at least 300 million pounds over the next few years. In addition to the existing care system, almost one million patients will be treated by at least 3,600 additional, newly trained psychological therapists. According to the authors, there are also deficiencies in the provision of psychotherapy in Germany. For example, For example, only about one in ten mentally ill patients receive psychotherapy. The waiting times for such a place are almost half a year. When treated, it is usually pharmacotherapeutic, although evidence-based psychotherapies are generally more successful and less expensive than pharmacotherapy for the most common disorders. With long-term thinking, current health economic research data speak in favor of promoting psychotherapy, and suggestions for improving the care situation are then made.
01.06.2009
Aging in familiar surroundings is a great need for most people. The transition to a residential care facility, on the other hand, is often experienced as very stressful and is associated with considerable financial costs for those affected, their relatives and social security systems. If people develop dementia, one in two people move permanently into a residential care facility within the first three years of the onset of the illness. Whether and when a move to a residential facility is carried out depends on numerous characteristics of those affected, their relatives and external conditions. For a German sample of older people with incident dementia, the absence of a spouse in particular was identified as a strong risk factor for a shorter time before moving to a residential facility. In addition to identifying further - possibly modifiable - factors influencing the institutionalization rates and times of dementia sufferers, the aim of future research efforts should also be the development of target group-specific interventions for certain risk groups in order to - if sensible - ensure longer or optimal care for dementia patients in the home environment to be able to move into a home facility at the right time.
01.06.2009
The President of the Federal Insurance Office (BVA), Josef Hecken, in the MVF cover interview