Ley General de Sanidad y Salud Pública

• Actuaciones de salud pública se justifican por magnitud de problemas, proporcionalidad, eficiencia, y sostenibilidad. (a) Principio de precaución y evaluación. (d)
• Health public actions must be evaluated in terms of operation and results, with appropriate frequency. (e)
• Principles of transparency, integrity, and security. (f-h)
• The Public Health Strategy aims to promote health and equity in health in all public policies and facilitate intersectoral action. (i)
• The Health Strategy, which will be approved by the Interterritorial Council of the National Health System, will have a quinquennial duration and will be evaluated every two years. (j)
• The administrative intervention to achieve this goal will be carried out through a meticulous method based on tasks of: Planning, Organization, Direction, Coordination, and Control (PODCC). (k)
• Planning characterized by being forward-looking, the relationship between the action and the unmet results, the action as the objective, the process as continuous and dynamic, multidisciplinary, influenced by the sociopolitical context, and adaptable to any activity. (l)
• Planning for health is a social planning sector related to health, including the achievement of goals, the existence and accessibility of health services. (m)
• Planning process includes stages: identification of problems, establishing priorities, determining objectives, determining specific objectives, determining activities, anticipating resources, and executing and developing the program. (n)
• Evaluation is an integral part of the planning process, examining the relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, and equity of objectives and the allocation of resources. (o)
• Indicators of Health are numerical variables related to specific health factors that measure the state of health and potential evolution. (p)
• Planning can be approached from different perspectives, such as political, organizational, pragmatic, or sociopolitical levels. (q)
• Pineault denotes different types of planning based on various criteria. (r)
• Planning based on level or extension of the process:
  • Political Level Planning: highest level, producing the Health Policy, the general orientation for health-related actions in the state, with political objectives. (s)
  • International political objectives, influenced by knowledge of health needs and sociopolitical context, ideology, public opinion, and interest groups. (t)
• Other types of planning based on organizational, pragmatic, and sociopolitical contexts. (u)

Test your knowledge about the General Health Law and the Public Health Law in Spain, including their fundamental activities and principles. This quiz covers topics related to epidemiological studies, health risk prevention, and the integrated system of health information.