Privatizacija družbenih dejavnosti (Slovene)

This yearly report is a part of a five year study of privatization processes in the field of social services, i.e. education, health care, and social security. The main focus of the research is privatization (deregulation) of activities and not privatization of resources. This year we have conducted a survey based on interviews of health care providers (N=181) and users (N=450) at the level of primary medical services. The preliminary results of descriptive statistical analysis demonstrate positive influence of privatization on quality of health services. Surprisingly, such an improvement is not restricted only to private sector but has been also noticed in public sector (although to a 1ower degree). Preliminary results suggest that those doctors who have intention to move from public to private sector are professionally more active. It is also significant that those doctors who are already employed in private sector are also more profiled than their colleagues in public sector: they are more involved in profesional self-developement, more engaged in professional associations and willing to accept external control over their own work. And finally both, those in public and those in private sector, more frequentely express preference for cooperation between the two sectors than confrontation between them. It seems that ideological confrontation between private and public sectors is diminishing.