title: Citizens' role in health services: satisfaction behavior: Kano's model, Part 1.
abstract: When it comes to consumer satisfaction, there is a lack of consensus over the importance of the role of consumers in connection with the quality of services. Widely different points of view exist, ranging from a defense of consumer satisfaction as the ultimate measure of service quality, to its treatment as a commercial issue or as one that merely has to do with image. This first article (part 1 of 2, also in this issue) describes and illustrates Kano's explicative model of how consumer satisfaction behaves and briefly analyzes the main characteristics, advantages, and limitations of the different methods used to assess consumer satisfaction.
authors.affiliation: Institut d'Estudis de la Salut (Institute for Health Studies), Health and Social Security Department, Barcelona, Spain.
authors.forename: Antoni
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Corbella Jané
authors.forename: Salvador
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Maturana Domínguez
mesh_terms: D003258:Consumer Behavior; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D019538:Health Care Surveys; D006302:Health Services Research / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008389:Marketing of Health Services; D017146:Models, Organizational; D015233:Models, Statistical; D036301:Qualitative Research; D019984:Quality Indicators, Health Care; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D012107:Research Design; D017749:Total Quality Management