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March 25-26, 2019 | Amsterdam, Netherlands
2
nd
Global Public Health Congress
Journal of Community Medicine & Health Education | ISSN : 2161-0711
Volume 09
Global Public Health 2019
J Community Med Health Educ 2019, Volume 09
DOI: 10.4172/2161-0711-C2-057
Health insurance policy and the satisfaction with the health services in Kosovo
Hashim Mehmeti
1
, Arian Musliu
2
, Djellon Peci
1
and
Bernard Tahirbegolli+
1Heimerer College, Republic of Kosovo
2Ludwig Maximilian University, Germany
T
he health system in Kosovo is a streamlined system that is managed in three levels of health care. Management systems are
divided into primary, secondary and tertiary (Assembly of Kosovo, 2004). According to Kosovo democratic institute (2011),
functional health insurance systems are a necessity to increase the quality of health services. Since 2011, it has been proven that
drafts are being piloted in order to implement health insurance but still without success (Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, 2018). The purpose
of this research is to assess the need for health insurance in Kosovo and to evaluate the satisfaction of citizens with the health services
and health system. In this research a sample of 123 participants was recruited (50.8% males) all citizens of Kosovo. The average
age of the respondents was 24.4 years. Two different instruments were used in this research. First instrument was a self-created
instrument based on the data from scientific literature to measure the need of proper health insurance. Also another instrument that
originally was created by Wirral Community NHS was used to measure the satisfaction with 14 different processes of health system
in Kosovo. Only 26% of respondents are insured and 74% of them are not insured. Respondents have shown that the need for health
insurance is extremely high (82.2%). Also, 54% of respondents consider that health services are moderately satisfactory and 79.5%
of citizens consider that proper health insurance will improve the health system. Most of the citizens consider that health services
are satisfactory on average. Health insurances are seen as extremely important by citizens of Kosovo as the primary procedure to
improve the health systems and satisfaction.
The holistic being of parents having a psychologically challenged child: an analysis
Jumar Talento Ubalde
Australia Institute of Business and Technology, Australia
M
ental retardation is a subnormal intellectual development as a result of congenital causes, brain injury, or disease and
characterized by any of various cognitive deficiencies, including impaired learning, social and vocational disability. It is
now termed as mentally challenged, psychologically challenged or intellectual disability in order to preserve the dignity of the
individual. On this research study, the researcher aims to show the holistic being of parents having a mentally retarded child. Thirty
parents having a psychologically challenged child studying in Legarda Elementary School were the respondents of the study. The
respondents were given thirty minutes to answer the Likert scale questionnaire categorized according to the components of holism
and subcategorized according to Gordon’s functional health patterns. The result showed that there is no significant difference on the
holistic being according to the demographic profile of the parents. The results showed that there is no negative effect of having a
psychologically challenged child on the holistic being of the parents, the public would still benefit from its results by evaluating and
knowing the holistic being of the parents having psychologically challenged child.