Financial crisis in Portugal

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Autor(a) principal: Morais Nunes, Alexandre
Data de Publicação: 2019
Outros Autores: Cunha Ferreira, Diogo, Campos Fernandes, Adalberto
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10362/89757
Resumo: Portugal has faced an economic and financial crisis that began circa FY2009 and whose effects are still ongoing. In FY2011, the Portuguese state and the European triumvirate – composed of the European Commission, the International Monetary Fund, and the European Central Bank – signed the Memoranda of Understanding. This troika agreement aimed to improve the operational efficiency of public services. This crisis had a considerable impact on the Portuguese citizens’ life and productivity, as well as on the public health care system. Cuts over public expenditures have been made to reduce the risk of noncompliance with budgetary targets, despite their potential impact on quality and access to health care services. We analyzed the main policies and measures undertaken by the Portuguese Ministry of Health with respect to the bailout program associated with the troika agreement. Then, we focused on the budgetary cuts–related risks over the social performance of the care system. Evidence suggests that structural reforms in the health care sector in the troika period had positive effects in terms of drugs administration and consumption, on the one hand, and secondary care expenditures reduction, on the other hand. Nonetheless, we observed some divestitures on infrastructures and the worsening of access to health care services.
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effects in the health care sector
title Financial crisis in Portugal
spellingShingle Financial crisis in Portugal
Morais Nunes, Alexandre
access
efficiency
health care
National Health Service
Portuguese financial crisis
Health Policy
SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
title_short Financial crisis in Portugal
title_full Financial crisis in Portugal
title_fullStr Financial crisis in Portugal
title_full_unstemmed Financial crisis in Portugal
title_sort Financial crisis in Portugal
author Morais Nunes, Alexandre
author_facet Morais Nunes, Alexandre
Cunha Ferreira, Diogo
Campos Fernandes, Adalberto
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author2 Cunha Ferreira, Diogo
Campos Fernandes, Adalberto
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Cunha Ferreira, Diogo
Campos Fernandes, Adalberto
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv access
efficiency
health care
National Health Service
Portuguese financial crisis
Health Policy
SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
topic access
efficiency
health care
National Health Service
Portuguese financial crisis
Health Policy
SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
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