Laura Cabiedes Miragaya

• MS, PhD
• Lecturer at University of Oviedo

Recensión del libro titulado La vida en cuatro letras. Claves para entender la diversidad, la enfermedad y la felicidad, de Carlos López-Otín (Ediciones Paidós, Barcelona, 2019) Se trata de un ensayo escrito en tres dimensiones: al hilo discursivo científico (riguroso y, al mismo tiempo, fácil de seguir), le acompañan citas literarias muy sugerente...

Fundamentos. La cirugía menor es realizada actualmente por diversos profesionales en atención primaria y especializada. Como tecnología sanitaria debe ser evaluada para conseguir una eficiencia organizacional. La satisfacción del usuario es uno de los criterios de calidad. Por ello se plantea un análisis de la calidad percibida por el usuario según...

Food and beverage service activities are a key part of tourism. However, there are few quantitative works as it is a difficult sector to study. The aim of this paper is to study the possibilities of analysis of the food service sector in Spain starting from the main statistical sources. For this purpose, the available databases have been described...

Objective: Nowadays minor surgery is performed by di- fferent professionals at primary as well as specialized care. Being a healthcare technology, minor surgery must be assessed in order to achieve an organizational efficiency. User's satisfaction must be one of the quality criteria. That is why an analysis of the quality perceived by users accord...

Al inicio de los años 90, el Coeficiente de Gini situaba a Brasil entrelos países con peor distribución de la renta y de la riqueza. En 1988,la redemocratización del país culminó con una Constitución Federal que instituyó un sistema sanitario público nacional, de acceso universal. Este estudio ha analizado si el grado de equidad ha evolucionado des...

The objective of this article is to analyse the structure of the Spanish eating-out sector from an economic point of view, and more specifically, from the supply perspective. This aspect has been studied less than the demand side, almost certainly due to the gaps which exist in available official statistics in Spain, and which have been filled basi...

In this paper, a comparative analysis between the main political citizen attitudes before the crisis in Iceland and Spain is carried out. After a brief review of political and economical antecendents, it was concluded that in Spain, as well as in Iceland, the key explanatory factors of the deep economic imbalances are located at the institutional s...

Introduction: Most new antineoplastic agents (NAAs) must undergo a complex and subject-to-uncertainty selection process before they are included in Hospital Formularies. The aim of this study is to quantify the temporal differences for NAA inclusion across Spanish hospitals and to identify the potential predictive factors for actual access times. M...

Objectives: The assessment, from a social perspective, of minor surgery in Asturias, in relation to the care levels and the professionals that carry it out, the surgery being considered as a healthcare process that goes beyond a surgical intervention. Methods: MS performed in three primary health-care areas and in two hospitals in Asturias during 2...

Given that new oncology drugs are frequently involved in departures from the normal technology appraisal processes, the main objective of this article is to analyze these decision-making processes, as well as their impact on the regulation of new approaches to selecting novel drugs and the regulatory steps to deal with risk-sharing arrangements. Th...

Most developed countries regulate prices for on-patent drugs, especially if they are publicly funded. Although theoretical reasons -and therefore shared justifications- exist to intervene, pricing schemes may differ considerably from one country to another, as well as in the course of time. In fact, the current focus has been shifting away from cos...

En el presente artículo se describen algunas de las fórmulas más comúnmente utilizadas para estimular la competencia en la provisión de servicios públicos según el discurso de la Nueva Gestión Pública (NGP), tales como el recurso a la contratación externa, los mecanismos de contratación interna, las concesiones administrativas, los bonos, los merca...

This is a comparative study of the average and median approval times for pharmaceutical innovations (new molecular entities -NMES- and new biologics), authorised in the United States (US) and in the European Union (EU) under the centralised procedure, during the period 1995 to 2003. Marketing withdrawals for safety reasons have been monitored, sinc...

Pharmaceutical policies form a substantial part of health care services, from the point of view of both equity and efficiency goals. Expenditure on pharmaceuticals has been growing steadily over the last few decades, and countries are finding the financing of drugs increasingly difficult. This article surveys the changes in pharmaceutical policies...

Desde la década de los años 80 y, con mayor fuerza y amplitud en los años 90, numerosos países con culturas y estructuras institucionales muy distintas vienen aplicando fórmulas de nueva gestión pública (NGP, en adelante) en la provisión de algunos servicios públicos. La NGP constituye un paraguas bajo el que se cobijan prácticas diferentes. La def...

Background: This study evaluates the effects on coronary patients of a new practice in community pharmacies called Pharmaceutical Care (PhC) as compared to the traditional pattern of pharmacy practice. It attempts to ascertain whether pharmaceutical care is feasible in addition to ascertaining differences in effectiveness for coronary patients’ pha...

Background: This study evaluates the effects on coronary patients of a new practice in community pharmacies called Pharmaceutical Care (PhC) as compared to the traditional pattern of pharmacy practice. It attempts to ascertain whether pharmaceutical care is feasible in addition to ascertaining differences in effectiveness for coronary patients' ph...

This study presents the economic results of the TOMCOR Project on Pharmaceutical Care (PhC), made in 83 communitity pharmacy offices from four spanish provinces (Asturias, Barce- lona, Madrid and Vizcaya) after one year follow-up of 735 patients suffering coronary disease, divided in two groups (330 under PhC at the intervention group and 405 at th...

A new paradigm appeared in Europe in the early 1990 s regarding the reform of health care systems. This paradigm has come to be known as the managed competition paradigm, among other terms. First introduced in Great Britain, it entails the separation of the financing/purchasing and providing functions, so that competition among providers is enhance...

This paper will deal with both policy-diffusion and policy-transfer. The paper will focus rather on the conditions that have allowed for policy-diffusion and transfer than on the specific mechanisms of policy spread. To begin with, better understanding is needed on exactly what is supposed to be transferred in the reform of Southern health care sys...

All Southern European countries have enacted reform laws during the last decade with the in tention of turning their traditional social- security health-care systems into national health services. Spain was no exception to this reform thrust and the General Health Law of 1986 brought about a significant institutional change. The purpose of this art...

The pharmaceutical activity has experienced over the last 50 years an important evolution in terms of concepts and contents affecting not only pharmacists but the whole health professionals. The subject of this study were the characteristics and implications of that change. We review the main conditions leading to this change and characteristics of...

Resumen La prestación farmacéutica destaca como una de las rúbricas del gasto sanitario público que más han crecido en los últimos años. En particular, entre 1997 y 2001, la tasa de crecimiento interanual del gasto real fue superior al 6%. En este artículo se analizan los principales componentes del gasto en la prestación farmacéutica del Sistema N...