The Spaniards reduce their medical expenses but demand more attention and better infrastructure.

-Three of four Spanish seeks information on portals of health before going to the doctor

-citizens rely more on specialized sites which in the webs of pharmaceutical, laboratories and hospitals

Madrid, April 2012.- the Spanish demand more time (54%) visit the doctorbest facilities (33%) and reduction in the waiting lists with the incorporation of more personal professional (30%), as emerges from the study conducted by the portal specializing in news, forums, and medical Directory Salud.es on the Spanish perception of the Spanish health system. Other additional requests made by users, according to the findings of the study, include professional low on medications, best prices or a more efficient service of summons.

The study, conducted among nearly a thousand users, also highlights greater awareness of the population in controlling health spending. One in five respondents Spanish has reduced the purchase of medications to reduce your monthly expenses, and 5% said that less went to the doctor as a measure of economic control.

Essential professional information accredited by Internet specialists Spaniards make use of Internet health and when they seek information, 77% of respondents acknowledge consult their ailments in portals specialized in medical information. Only 6% of respondents prefer accessing the web pages of hospitals or laboratories.

Users who come to Internet to a medical condition or a medical question, a growing 6% recognizes have stopped going to the doctor after check their symptoms on the net, that he believed he had resolved his doubts.

Although Salud.es has career information and accredited by specialists in Internet, need that responds the launch of the website Salud.es, its mission is precisely the offer a space open and interactive reference on health on the internet and does not substitute for a medical service. Salud.es integrates information, news, forums and a comprehensive directory of businesses and professionals related to health.

Active search contrasts with the fact that 18% of respondents recognized that, although check in Internet information before going to your outpatient appointment, then not her comments or contrasts with your family doctor. The pharmacist becomes the third source of information after the family doctor and the information from the Internet. In fact, before a slight ailment, 22% of Spaniards go to your usual Pharmacy and more than 10% automedica.

On the other hand, nearly one of every two Spaniards (45%) does not hold the curiosity to open the results of an analysis and does not expect to the appointment with the doctor to discuss them. They prefer to do it with friends and family (23%) or view online results (22%).

Other findings of the study

-More than three in four (76 per cent) Spanish trust the opinion of a specialist in cases of serious ailments compared to 17% who trusts more than his doctor. But when it comes to minor ailments, the authority of the family doctor is not call into question: 79% confident he always or almost always.

-5% of Spaniards go to the doctor but does not follow after their recommendations and bet by self-medication or los remedios caseros.

-two of every five respondents considered thatDepending on the ailment and the times of closeness with the medical treatment varies. Although 11% ensures that the treatment is cold and distant.

About Salud.es

Salud.es is the only web portal on Spain that integrates information, news, forums and a comprehensive directory of businesses and professionals related to health. Salud.es aims to offer an open and interactive space of reference on the internet about health. The number of visits grows continuously and significant already counting more than 5000 visits per day. The salud.es team has a renowned and experienced medical guarantee which ensures the reliability of the portal. This check and marks the editorial line of salud.es and the code of ethics to be followed in the dissemination of health information. The portal is independent of any entity or organization with specific interests in the health sector, so that seeks neutrality in information.

Salud.es is a company owned by the accelerator and business incubator of Internet Mola.com.

On Mola

Mola is an initiative founded by Enrique Dubois and Paco Gimena that after accumulating more than 10 years of experience as an entrepreneur in the Internet first, and several years of Business Angel the second, already has more than 50 employees and a net of four million euros.

Mola aims to incubate ideas of entrepreneurs to turn them into profitable business on the Internet, offering them all the common resources of a company: space of labour, technological development, design and marketing, human resources, financial and legal advice services of accounting or support to the development of business and sales. In addition, Mola also accelerates projects through funding or advice, that there are mentors with proven experience and success.

Some of the companies owned by Mola.com are Bankimia.com, Portbooker.com, Workmeter.com,
PlaySpace.com, Destinity.com, Calzadoo.com, BelleVIP.com and Salud.es

for more information about the company, visit www.Mola.com, follow @ molapuntocom on Twitter or become a fan at facebook.com/molacom.