Health in Portugal

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According to the 2010 Human Development Report, the average life expectancy in Portugal was 79.1 years.

The Portuguese health system is characterized by three coexisting systems: the National Health Service (NHS), special social health insurance schemes for certain professions (health subsystems) and voluntary private health insurance. The NHS provides universal coverage. In addition, about 25% of the population is covered by the health subsystems, 10% by private insurance schemes and another 7% by mutual funds. The Ministry of Health is responsible for developing health policy as well as managing the NHS. Five regional health administrations are in charge of implementing the national health policy objectives, developing guidelines and protocols and supervising health care delivery. Decentralization efforts have aimed at shifting financial and management responsibility to the regional level. In practice, however, the autonomy of regional health administrations over budget setting and spending has been limited to primary care.

The NHS is predominantly funded through general taxation. Employer (including the state) and employee contributions represent the main funding sources of the health subsystems. In addition, direct payments by the patient and voluntary health insurance premiums account for a large proportion of funding. Similar to the other Eur-A countries, most Portuguese die from noncommunicable diseases. Mortality from cardiovascular diseases (CVD) is higher than in the Eurozone, but its two main components, ischaemic heart disease and cerebrovascular disease, display inverse trends compared with the Eur-A, with cerebrovascular disease being the single biggest killer in Portugal (17%). Portuguese people die 12% less often from cancer than in the Eur-A, but mortality is not declining as rapidly as in the Eur-A. Cancer is more frequent among children as well as among women younger than 44 years. Although lung cancer (slowly increasing among women) and breast cancer (decreasing rapidly) are scarcer, cancer of the cervix and the prostate are more frequent. Portugal has the highest mortality rate for diabetes in the Eur-A, with a sharp increase since the late 1980s.

Portugal’s infant mortality rate has dropped sharply since the 1980s, when 24 of 1000 newborns died in the first year of life. It is now around 3 deaths per a 1000 newborns. This improvement was mainly due to the decrease in neonatal mortality, from 15.5 to 3.4 per 1000 live births.

People are usually well informed about their health status, the positive and negative effects of their behaviour on their health and their use of health care services. Yet their perceptions of their health can differ from what administrative and examination-based data show about levels of illness within populations. Thus, survey results based on self-reporting at the household level complement other data on health status and the use of services. Only one third of adults rated their health as good or very good in Portugal (Kasmel et al., 2004). This is the lowest of the Eur-A countries reporting and reflects the relatively adverse situation of the country in terms of mortality and selected morbidity.[1]

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[edit] List of hospitals

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This is a list of hospitals in Portugal. It is sorted by city, region or metropolitan agglomeration. Most of the portuguese Hospitals were inserted into joint centrally-regulated Health Super Units called Centros Hospitalares. The next phase is already being implemented and it consists of including the local Health Centres into the region's Centro Hospitalar; those newly created Mega-Units are defined as Unidade Local de Saúde (Local Health Units).[2]

[edit] Alentejo

  • Hospital do Espírito Santo - Évora
  • Hospital Militar of Évora
  • Hospital da Misericórdia - Évora
  • Hospital of the Litoral Alentejano - Santiago do Cacém
  • Centro Hospitalar of the Baixo Alentejo (Hospital José Joaquim Fernandes, Hospital de São Paulo) - Beja, Serpa
  • Unidade Local de Saúde of the Norte Alentejano (Hospital de Santa Luzia, Hospital Dr. José Maria Grande) - Portalegre, Elvas

[edit] Algarve

[edit] Braga

[edit] Bragança

  • Centro Hospitalar of the Nordeste (Hospital Distrital of Bragança, Hospital of Macedo de Cavaleiros, Hospital of Mirandela) - Bragança region

[edit] Castelo Branco

[edit] Coimbra

[edit] Greater Lisbon

Hospital of Santa Maria, Lisbon.

[edit] Greater Porto

[edit] Guarda

  • Unidade Local de Saúde of Guarda (Hospital Nossa Senhora da Assunção, Hospital Sousa Martins) - Seia, Guarda

[edit] Leiria

[edit] Médio Tejo (Santarém region)

  • Centro Hospitalar of the Médio Tejo (Hospital de Abrantes, Hospital de Torres Novas, Hospital de Tomar) - Abrantes, Tomar, Torres Novas

[edit] Tâmega (Porto region)

  • Centro Hospitalar of the Tâmega and Sousa (Hospital Padre Américo, Hospital São Gonçalo de Amarante) - Penafiel, Amarante

[edit] Viana do Castelo

  • Unidade Local de Saúde of the Alto Minho (Hospital de Santa Luzia, Hospital Conde Bertiandos) - Viana do Castelo region

[edit] Viseu

Hospital of São Teotónio, Viseu.

[edit] References

  1. ^ see http://www.euro.who.int/document/chh/por_highlights.pdf
  2. ^ http://www.hospitaisepe.min-saude.pt/Hospitais_EPE/Mapa_Hospitais/
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