Report “SNS in FOCUS: Expectations and Reality” by Observatory
On December 10th, 2024, the Foundation for Health launched its Observatory at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon. At this presentation, it was released the Observatory's first report: SNS in FOCUS 2024 - Expectations and Reality.
In this document, the Observatory has sought to establish and explain the expectations regarding the development of the SNS and the Portuguese health system, appropriate to the analysis of what occured
(a) in the last political cycle of around 8 years - 2015 to 2024;
(b) in the current political cycle (the first 7 months).
This comparison is made by assessing the convergence or divergence of reality in relation to expectations, based on a classification into 5 categories (“traffic lights”). This exercise, despite benefiting from a brief justification for each of the 15 categories analyzed, has a subjective component. For this reason, the judgments represented are not presented as indisputable “certainties”, but rather as an invitation to a systematic and informed debate on the SNS and the country's health system.
See the full report here.
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