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Health Service Evaluation

Programme The research groups attached to the Health Service Evaluation Programme have
the same interest in conducting collaborative research of excellence in health ser-
description
vice evaluation focusing on the priorities of the National Health System for the
purpose of directly transferring their results to decision-making in health policy, in

management, in clinical practice and in patient’s decisions.

• To enhance new knowledge on the health and social burden of diseases, and

Objectives
the quality of healthcare services.

• To foment the collaboration among groups of the programme and other groups
of the CIBER, RETICS and others.

• To transfer the scientific results of the programme and to develop strategies
for improving the scientific skills of its investigators.

The development of this new subprogramme which results from previous strategic

Strategic subprogrammes and includes the main common activity of the current groups of

subprogrammes
Programme 6 started in 2013 with the name Health and Social Burden Of Chronic
Diseases (BURDEN OF DISEASE).

Scientific Objectives:

• To estimate the health and social burden of chronic diseases based on the

Continuous Working Life Sample (MCVL) with mortality and temporary and
permanent disability data for 2009.

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• To develop and validate measuring instruments and indicators of disease 20
burden (well-being, health, disability, loss of productivity and use/consump- T
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tion of resources), transferring these instruments to professionals and inves- P
tigators by means of a free access repository (BiblioPRO).
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• To establish a strategy to link MCVL registries (Social Security members) with NU
other sources containing health data (e.g., electronic clinical history) available N
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for creating a permanent cohort of Social Security members and their con- P /
tacts with the National Health System.
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