The preliminary results of the work carried out as part of the project ‘Reforming the reform: an evidence-based financing model for the Portuguese primary care (REF2PRIM)’, from the NOVA National School of Public Health (NOVA NSPH), point to better productivity and consultation times at Family Health Units.
The data was shared by Francisco Madeira at the ‘EuHEA Conference 2024’, where he presented this work, carried out under the Research Grants of the Comprehensive Health Research Centre (CHRC), under the responsibility of Julian Perelman, a professor at NOVA NSPH.
The project is comparing the two models of primary health care in Portugal, to see if performance-based incentives contribute to different results in productivity and consultation times between Family Health Units (USF) and Personalised Health Care Units (UCSP). Preliminary results point to better performance by USFs.
The EuHEA Conference 2024 took place in Vienna, Austria, with the main objective of covering macro analyses at the level of health systems, research into the decision-making of the main economic agents and microeconomic studies into the consumption and behaviour of health care users and providers.