[1] At a lower level, home services are provided for several vulnerable groups which are not able to reach health care premises.
[9] Prizren remained the region with the largest mortality rate during these years, whereas Gjakova and Peja gradually equalized.
During this period, medical services in Kosovo have received several donations and international financial support has raised dramatically.
[17] Primary health care is available for individuals and families, coming from different municipalities, with affordable costs that can be covered by the Government funds as well as community.
[19] Primary Medical Centers usually deal with problems such as, short data on citizen registry, incorrect addresses and a large number of community migration from rural to urban territories.
Recently, the Ministry of Health has signed an agreement with British College, to train Kosovo graduated doctors in UK.
Secondary prevention programs identify and treat asymptomatic people, who have already been exposed to different risk factors or have any pre-clinical diseases, without any clinical symptom.
[21][failed verification] Screening tests are an example of secondary prevention activities, since they are performed even on patients who did not manifest any clinical symptoms of diseases, such as: hyperlipidemia, hypertension, breast, prostate cancer and many others.
[21][failed verification] Secondary health care is offered by regional hospitals in municipalities such as Mitrovica, Peć, Gjakova, Prizren and Gjilan.
[23] Regional hospitals in Kosovo are:[24] Tertiary health care is the highest specialized medical level, which offers more complex procedures and treatments performed by specialists.
[26][27] University Clinical Center of Kosovo is the main tertiary health care institution located in Prishtina, which offers most specialized medical services.
[29] After that date, sanitary stations, hygienic and microbiological or epidemiological services were established in Pristina, Prizren and Mitrovica.
[29] Prior to World War II and especially after it ended, the health condition and the circumstances in Kosovo were extremely difficult.
[29] It is important to emphasize the fact that in Kosovo in 1940 there were 5 hospitals with 390 beds, 36 different ambulatory medical and preventive services that had 5 sanitary-epidemiological stations, from which only three had worked.
[30] The outcome of these activities is primarily increasing the efficiency of the dental procedures in order to maintain with the contemporary developments in dentistry.
[30] The educational and health activities were mainly conducted in the Charitable Humanitarian Organization "Mother Teresa" in Prishtina.
American Hospital in Kosovo is a Bedminster Capital Management Fund investment, based in New York, whose participants are the Government of the United States of America.
Kosovo Health care functions are based on the following principles: equity, quality, equal treatment, sustainable financial conditions, cost-efficient services.
[49] Meanwhile, corruption was shown to be less prevalent than reported in other studies, only 4% of respondents solicited for a bribe during their most recent visit in public health care centers.
[50] Patients coming from rural areas, approximately pay 50 to 200 Euros, to travel to their closest medical center, which still remains one of the most concerning problems of Kosovo health care system.
[49] Public Pulse Report respondents (16%), were mostly concerned of the short time doctors spent with them and their involvement in decision-making was very low.
[49] From the Public Pulse Report, 52 respondents (4%) of the sample answered affirmatively, indicating that they were solicited during their last visit.
[51] This schedule is supported by Article 28 of the Law for Prevention and Fighting against Infectious Diseases 2007 that mandates that childhood vaccination for tuberculosis, hepatitis B, whooping cough, diphtheria, child paralysis, tetanus, measles, parotitis and rubella are obligatory.
Health care specialists claim that opposition of dividing private from public sector is intended to be done by law with a purpose of undergoing the ambiguity embedded in UCCK.
[60] After some profound constitutional changes on former Yugoslavia on 1965, all inhabitants got covered by a basic health insurance package, founded by Government's special fund.
[60] Starting from 70s to 90s because of a very complicated political situation, Kosovo inhabitants were not allowed to get covered by any health insurance packages.
Starting from 1999, when Kosovo finally became independent, there was a 60 million dollars investment in health sector, though small progressions are done by now.
[63] Its main activities include promotion, education, public meetings, information outreach, conferences, and seminars.
[65] With the ongoing effort of Dr. Strickler, Geisel Medical School has raised more than $4.5 million for the development of health care programs in Kosovo.
[70] This agreement was signed by Minister of Health, Prof. Dr. Ferid Agani, Dr. Genc Demjaha DMD, MBA from MediGAL and Mr. Zylfikar Aklar for Irem Ozel Egitim Kurumlari.