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ASSPRO CEE 2007
Collaborative Focused Research Project
FP7-SSH-2007 Grant Agreement No.: 217431
Assessment of patient payment policies and projection of their efficiency, equity and quality effects:
The case of Central and Eastern Europe
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Project seminar on
Patient Payments in Central and Eastern European Countries
Monday-Tuesday, 15 -16 March 2010
Amrâth Grand Hotel de l’Empereur; Stationsstraat 2, 6221 BP Maastricht, The Netherlands
ON-LINE SEMINAR PROCEEDINGS
Welcoming address from the project coordinators
Prof.Dr. Wim Groot; Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences; Maastricht University
Session 1: Out-of-pocket payments in Europe
Chaired by: Prof.Dr. Frits van Merode; Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences; Maastricht University
Presentation: “Existence of formal and informal patient payments in Europe”
Ms. Marzena Tambor
Institute of Public Health; Uniwersytet Jagiellonski Collegium Medicum; Krakow
Session 3: Patient payments in selected European countries
Chaired by: Prof.Dr. Wim Groot; Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences; Maastricht University
Welcoming address from the European Commission
Ms. Halina Walasek; Scientific and Policy Officer; European Commission.
Presentation related to strategy EU2020:
Session 2: Informal patient payments in Europe
Chaired by: Prof.Dr. Hans Maarse; Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences; Maastricht University
Presentation: “Governance and informal payments in public health care delivery”
Dr. Maureen Lewis
Advisor Development Economics Operations and Strategy; the World Bank
Presentation: “A framework for the investigation of informal patient payments”
Dr. Irena Griga
Director of the School of Public Health; Kyiv
Presentation: “Informal payment in health care and intra-household allocation
of resources in Albania”
Ms. Sonila Tomini; Maastricht Graduate School of Governance; Maastricht Universit
Presentation: “Short-term effects of official patient fees on informal payments
for health care in Hungary”
Ms. Petra Baji; Center for Public Affairs Studies Foundation; Budapesti Corvinus Egyetem; Budapest
Presentation: “Patient payments in the Russian Federation”
Mr. Vladimir S. Gordeev
Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences; Maastricht University
Session 4: Results of focus group discussions and in-depth interviews - I
Chaired by: Dr. Bernd Rechel; London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Session 5: Results of focus group discussions and in-depth interviews - II
Chaired by: Dr. Maureen Lewis; The World Bank
Presentation: “Experiences in the focus-group discussions and in-depth interviews in Hungary”
Ms. Petra Baji
Center for Public Affairs Studies Foundation; Budapesti Corvinus Egyetem; Budapest
Presentation: “Perspectives for official patient payments implementation in Ukraine”
Dr. Irena Griga
Director of the School of Public Health; Kyiv
Presentation: “Patient payments in Poland- preliminary results of focus group discussions
and in-depth interviews with health system’s stakeholders”
Ms. Marzena Tambor; Institute of Public Health; Uniwersytet Jagiellonski Collegium Medicum; Krakow
Presentation: “Romanian consumers and providers perspective on co-payments”
Ms. Constanta Mihaescu Pintia and Dr. Silvia Florescu
National School of Public Health, Management and Continuous Education in Health, Bucharest
Presentation: “Patients’ payments and the problems in medical services provision in Bulgaria”
Ms. Elka Atanasova
Medical University of Varna, Varna
Presentation: “Patient payment policy in Lithuania”
Dr. Liubove Murauskiene and Dr. Marija Veniute
Public Enterprise “MTVC”, Vilnius
Presentation: “Out-of-pocket payments in Central and Eastern Europe”
Dr. Bernd Rechel
European Centre on Health of Societies in Transition; London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
