The genesis, growth and organisational changes of private health insurance companies in Spain (1915–2015)

Pons, Jerònia Pons; Vilar‐Rodríguez, Margarita

doi:10.1080/00076791.2017.1374371

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“…The concentration of companies and workers also stimulated the creation of employers' (Pons and Vilar 2019b). Within this context, the foundations of a hospital structure in Catalonia were laid, much conditioned by the "Barcelona factor" and relying mainly on a constellation of small private clinics and hospitals of varying origin.…”

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“…The 3 For further details on the friendly societies, see Castillo and Ruzafa (2009); Vilar-Rodríguez and ; or the approach from social capital by Largo and Pujol (2016). For private health companies in Spain from a historical perspective, see Ponsand Vilar-Rodríguez (2019b). For a broader analysis from a regional perspective, see Vilar and Pons (2018, 250).…”

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The historical roots of the creation of the Catalan private-public hospital model: c. 1870-1935

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Vilar‐Rodríguez

2021

J. evol. stud. bus.

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This paper analyses the roots of the creation of the Catalan hospital model, based on a preponderance of privately owned hospitals and beds over those of public provision. In particular, on the basis of new statistical and documentary sources and a review of the existing historiography, this study reinterprets the keys that shaped this historical model during what is considered to be a strategic period of the process, 1870-1935. In the late nineteenth century, hospitals dependent on provincial authorities became private charity institutions in the provincial capitals, under the control of the medical and economic elites (a decisive process in the case of the city of Barcelona). Later, during the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera and the Second Republic, institutional impetus helped foster a system of district hospitals intended to meet the public demand for a network of public utility hospitals. This network was made up the few publicly owned hospitals and numerous privately owned ones. The philosophy of this model was taken up again during the transition to democracy after responsibility for healthcare was devolved to the Government of Catalonia 1981.

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The historical roots of the creation of the Catalan private-public hospital model: c. 1870-1935

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Vilar‐Rodríguez

2021

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“…Of interest are studies about promoting the development of an organisation with a growth mindset [5], where the primary dominants of development are openness to opportunities, setting the task to become better, inspiration for the success of others. Several studies have studied the relationship between growth and organisational change [6,7,8].…”

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The Innovative Basis of the Growing Small and Medium-sized Businesses

Bozhko¹

2022

Proceedings of the IX International Scientific and Practical Conference “Current Problems of Social and Labour Relations" (ISPC

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The growth of the organisation, expressed in revenue and the number of staff increase, has a positive effect on the socioeconomic indicators of the country. The firm's innovative activity as a factor of intensive growth in current conditions is beyond doubt but requires additional analysis to ensure it, considering the problems of growing organisations. Identification of innovation-based success factors and solutions to the problems of growing companies are topical management issues. The study aims to determine the factors of innovative development that would be the basis for ensuring the growth of small and medium-sized organisations. By methods of selective observation and in-depth structured interviews with representatives of small and medium-sized businesses, approx. three hundred organisations from Russian regions were surveyed, growth factors based on innovations were determined. The study results allow us to see the problems of growth of firms and choose possible solutions in the field of innovation management when making investment decisions. This will smooth out the economic instability of the business during the period of growth and create sustainable competitive advantages.

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“…Due to the lack of a fiscal reform, the Spanish hospital system never disposed of the necessary investments to employ enough medical personnel or technologies (Carasa 1991). This implied that the State had to resort to religious-and-private-owned institutions, mainly, to be able to guarantee the care of, at least, the most vulnerable groups (Pons and Vilar-Rodríguez 2017).…”

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Historical roots of hospital centrism in Catalonia (1917-1980)

Prats

Bekele

2021

J. evol. stud. bus.

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The aim of this article is to analyse the roots of the Catalonia health reform, whose first projects on reform have been documented since 1917. This historical process set-up, in Catalonia, a hospital-centric model involving three sets of regenerating and mutually reinforcing institutions: financial resources were being disproportionally distributed to hospitals, high-quality medical professionals were largely concentrated in hospitals and large outpatient departments were incorporated in hospitals, which functioned as a first point of care for many patients. Based on these premises, the intention is to contribute to the understanding of the initiatives that, during much of the 20th century, took place in Catalonia with the aim of bringing access to hospital services to the population. These same organising principles also had decisive influence on hospital planning in the rest of Spain. As such, we develop an historical approach to public policies that have been shaping the current imbalance between hospitals and primary care providers in Catalonia by combining two methodologies. On the one hand, an overview of the existing literature on this topic. On the other, an accumulation of case studies –which does not claim to be exhaustive– the result of this very research and that of other specialists in the object of study.As Catalonia still has a hospital-centric health system seeded throughout the 20th century, these findings can inform the framing of contemporary options for primary care strengthening. Without addressing these deep regenerating causes using a whole-system approach, Catalonia is unlikely to achieve a primary care orientation for health system development.

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The genesis, growth and organisational changes of private health insurance companies in Spain (1915–2015)

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