Abstracts by keywords: cost efficiency
When it comes to health matters, patients are anything but used to taking responsibility for themselves and their health. SGB V already emphasizes that they have shared responsibility and a duty to cooperate. However, it assigns the main responsibility to statutory health insurance. In the past, the traditional way of thinking in medicine often led to patients being seen as objects of medicine without their own responsibility (Schmid et al., page 14). In this context, the focus of care on acute, episodic and one-dimensional diseases is specifically mentioned, not least due to ever-increasing specializations (Müller-Mundt and Schaeffer, page 143).
