Abstract
At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the World Health Report 2000 of the World Health Organization (WHO) identified many countries falling short of their performance potential (World Health Organization 2000). The World Health Report 2008, focusing on the 30th anniversary of the Declaration of Alma-Ata on Primary Health Care, urged all countries to re-orientate their health systems towards strengthened primary care (World Health Organization 2008). Despite caveats on generalizability, the available evidence confirms that a strong primary care orientation results in improved population health outcomes and equity, more appropriate utilization of services, greater user satisfaction and lower health system costs (World Health Organization 2004). The value of a strengthened primary care system is increasingly recognized by policymakers worldwide (Starfield 2009).
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution.
Buying options
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Learn about institutional subscriptionsPreview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Book of Regulation on the Detailed Conditions for the Execution of Health Care Activities in Health Care Institutions and Other Health Care Providers. Staffing requirements. Article 4. Official Gazette of the Republic of Serbia, No. 107/2005.
Carr Hill, R. and Boulton, G. (2010) Whither Capitation Serbia? A Strategic Development Issue. Conference Sava Centre, Belgrade, Serbia, 8 December 2010.
Health Council of the Republic of Serbia (2009) Plan of the Health Care Development. Available at http://www.zdravlje.gov.rs, only in Serbian language.
EPOS Health Consultants and ECORYS Research and Consulting (2010) Assessment of International Assistance in the Serbian Health Sector. Conference with presentation of results. Belgrade, 21 April 2010.
European Union – European Agency for Reconstruction (2007) EU Support to Health Care in Serbia. Available at http://www.ear.europa.eu
Gander, C., Dumelie, R., and Matovic Miljanovic, S. (2009) Evaluation of CIDA Health Sector Programming in the Balkans 2005–2009. Draft report. Belgrade.
Institute of Public Health of Serbia (2010) Health Statistical Yearbooks of Republic of Serbia 2009, Belgrade. Available at http://www.batut.org.rs
Institute of Public Health of Serbia (2010). Outpatient Health Institutions Analysis of their Work and Utilization of Services in PHC, Serbia, 2009. Belgrade (Serbian). Available at http://www.batut.org.rs
Institute of Public Health of Serbia. Health Statistical Yearbooks of Serbia, Belgrade. Available at http://www.batut.org.rs
Joint MoH/ICRC Basic Health Services Pilot Project Kraljevo Municipality – Comparative Report of the Basic Health Services Pilot Project Baseline and Follow Up Household Population and Health Survey, Belgrade, 2006.
Keppel, K. G., Pearcy, J. N., and Klein, R. J. (2004). Measuring Progress in Healthy People 2010: Healthy People Statistics Notes. Maryland: National Center for Health Statistics.
Letica, S. (1984) Primary Health Care – Ideology/Illusion and Reality – case study of Yugoslavia. International Conference on Primary Health Care: Its Relevance for National Health Care and Social Movements, Vienna, 27 September to 1 October.
Ministry of Health of RS (2003) Better Health for All in the Third Millennium. Belgrade. Available at http://www.zdravlje.gov.rs, only in Serbian language.
Ministry of Health of RS and International Committee of the Red Cross (2006). Hand Over Process Review Report (15 April–15 June 2005), Belgrade.
Ministry of Health of the Republic of Serbia (2007) National Health Survey, Serbia 2006: Key findings. Belgrade. Also available at http://www.zdravlje.gov.rs
Nelson, B. D., Simic, S., Beste, L., Vukovic, D., Bjegovic, V., and VanRooyen, M. J. (2003) Multimodal Assessment of the Primary Health Care System of Serbia: A Model for Evaluating Post-Conflict Health Systems. Prehosp Disaster Med 2003 Jan–Mar, 18(1): 6–13.
Pošarac, A., Pejin, L. J., Mijatović, B., Todorović, V., and Simić, S. (1998) A Situation Analysis of Women and Children in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. UNICEF Belgrade Office, Belgrade.
Simic, S., Santric Milicevic, M., Matejic, B., Marinkovic, J., and Adams, O. (2010) Do we have Primary Health Care Reform? The Story of the Republic of Serbia. Health Policy, 96(2): 160–9.
Starfield, B. (1991) Primary Care and Health: A Cross-National Comparisons. JAMA, 1991; 266(No. 16): 2268–71.
Starfield, B. (2009) Toward International Primary Care Reform. CMAJ, 180(11): 1091–2.
Venekamp, D., Makarova, T., and McGeevy, M. (2010) Final report: Assessment of International Assistance in the Serbian Health Sector, EPOS Health Consultants and ECORYS Research and Consulting.
WHO (1991) The Role of the General Practitioner in the Provision of Comprehensive Primary Health Care. Regional Office for Europe, EUR/ICP/PHC 336, Copenhagen.
World Health Organization (2000) The World Health Report 2000. Health Systems: Improving Performance. Geneva: WHO.
WHO (2005) Health Impact Assessment/Evaluation of the European Agency for Reconstruction Interventions in Health Sector in Serbia during the years 2000–2003. Belgrade, September–November 2005.
World Health Organization (2008) The World Health Report 2008. Primary Health Care: Now More than Ever. Geneva: WHO.
World Health Organization (2004) What are the Advantages and Disadvantages of Restructuring a Health Care System to be More Focused on Primary Health Care Services? Health Evidence Network. Available at www.euro.who.int/HEN/Syntheses/primaryvsspecialist/20040115_15
WHO (2011) European Health for All database, July 2011 edition, Copenhagen: World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe.
World Health Organization Europe (2010) Evaluation of the Organization and Provision of Primary Health Care in Serbia – A survey-based project in the regions of Vojvodina, Central Serbia and Belgrade. Primary care in the WHO European Region series. WHO Regional Office for Europe.
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Copyright information
© 2012 Snežana Simić, Jelena Marinković, and George Boulton
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Simić, S., Marinković, J., Boulton, G. (2012). Primary Health Care Reform in Serbia: Driven by Whom?. In: Bartlett, W., Božikov, J., Rechel, B. (eds) Health Reforms in South East Europe. New Perspectives on South-East Europe Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137264770_6
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137264770_6
Publisher Name: Palgrave Macmillan, London
Print ISBN: 978-1-349-33572-5
Online ISBN: 978-1-137-26477-0
eBook Packages: Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies CollectionPolitical Science and International Studies (R0)