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Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. I am very glad that I was invited to come and speak to you about the health care in the Netherlands I hope I will succeed in giving you a clear picture of the functioning and the organization of Dutch health care. As mr. Hinohara asked me I will thereby focus on hospital care and home care.
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But let me first introduce myself to you. My name is Marja Kaag. I am working at the Research Centre Primary/Secondary Health Care. This is a department of the University Hospital Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. I was invited to come here because I wrote an article about the shifting of care from secondary to primary health care (that is from hospital to home care). This is one of the activities the Research Centre is involved in. In general the Research Centre Primary/Secondary Health Care looks for different ways to organize health care especially in the interface between primary and secondary health care. We ask ourselves questions like: how can nurses in a hospital and murses at home work together in a better way? Or: is it possible to treat a certain patient group at home instead of in the hospital, and if yes, on what conditions? After we have invented and organized a new form of care or a new form of communication between primary and secondary health care, we conduct research to evaluate whether the newly organized care is to everyones satisfaction and whether is it cost effective. This area of care between primary and secondary health care is called: transmural care. I will give you some more information later on in my presentation.
