Over the last two decades, health policy and governance in Italy have undergone decentralisation at the regional level. The central government was expected to play a guiding role in defining minimum care standards and controlling health expenditures at the regional level in order to keep the...

Se l'SSN e le sue aziende sanitarie hanno assunto solo recentemente consapevolezza di trovarsi a fronteggiare una 'nuova normalità', e quindi di dover 'cambiare pelle' per fronteggiare le sfide ad essa connesse, per le imprese del Life Science una nuova normalità, forse meglio definibile come...

Objective To investigate structural and psychological factors that lead non-urgent patients to choose the Accidents & Emergency Department (A&ED) rather than primary care services.Data sources Data were collected through interviews by means of a structured questionnaire. Data regarding the A&ED...