The current article analyzes existing mechanisms for public participation in health systems in the countries of Southern Europe. Results are presented from a literature review focusing on public participation in health systems, highlighting the potentialities and challenges emerging from the principal national experiences in the respective countries: Spain, Greece, Italy, and Portugal. The article begins by characterizing the health systems, then presents the methodology followed by the results of the analysis in each country, emphasizing the different forms of participation, both institutionalized and non-institutionalized. The study's principal conclusion is that a legislative discourse has prevailed, which in most cases has not materialized in actual participatory practices; meanwhile, non-institutionalized forms of participation have emerged with a special leading role in the health area, featuring protests, largely spurred by the current economic crisis.
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science
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Attention Score in Context
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 01 August 2018.
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#7,357,897
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#346
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#127,980
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#2
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