THE HEALTH COOPERATIVES AS REPONSE TO HEALTHCARE CHALLENGES AND COVID19 PANDEMIC
| Main Author: | Stamenovic Milorad |
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| Format: | Proceeding Journal |
| Bahasa: | eng |
| Terbitan: |
, 2021
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| Online Access: |
https://zenodo.org/record/5326421 |
Daftar Isi:
- Health cooperatives are not developed in Serbia, but during 2020 there was created Initiative for reopening health cooperatives submitted to the Parliament explaining benefits of such organizational form and requesting change of public policies based on the previous research. This paper propose model that might be of practical power for the existing settings of healthcare system of Serbia, particularly reaching vulnerable groups in rural areas. Global experiences of healthcare cooperatives are presented especially considering COVID19 pandemic. Methodology is based on the analysis of the literature and synthesis of historical and modern aspects of health cooperatives in order to propose model of worker based health cooperatives that should be created into the rural areas in order to achieve results more effective than current in provision of the healthcare services.