title: The Analysis of Slovenian Political Party Programs Regarding Doctors and Health Workers from 1992 to 2014.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The study focuses on the programmatic bases of Slovenian political parties since independence. It presents an analysis of party programs and their preferences regarding doctors and other health workers, as well as the contents most commonly related to them. At the same time, the study also highlights the intensity of the presence of doctors on the policy agenda through time.
  
  
  METHODS
  In the study, 83 program documents of political parties have been analysed. The study includes programmes of political parties that have occurred in parliamentary elections in Slovenia between 1992 and 2014 and have exceeded the parliamentary threshold. The data were analysed using the content analysis method, which is suitable for analysing policy texts. The analysis was performed using ATLAS.ti, the premier software tool for qualitative data analysis.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The results showed that doctors and other health workers are an important political topic in non-crisis periods. At that time, the parties in the context of doctors mostly dealt with efficiency and the quality of services in the health system. They often criticize doctors and expose the need for their control. In times of economic crisis, doctors and other health workers are less important in normative commitments of parties.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Slovenian political parties and their platforms cannot be distinguished ideologically, but primarily on the principle of access to government. It seems reasonable to conclude that parties do not engage in dialogue with doctors, and perceive the latter aspassive recipients of government decisions-politics.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of information studies, Novo mesto, Sevno 13, pp. 299, 8000 Novo mesto, Slovenia.
authors.forename: Alem
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Maksuti
authors.affiliation: University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Family Medicine, Poljanski nasip 58, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia.
authors.forename: Danica
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Rotar Pavlič
authors.affiliation: University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences, Kardeljeva pl. 5, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia.
authors.forename: Tomaž
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Deželan
keywords: Slovenia; health workers; medical doctors; party programmes; political parties