L’assurance maladie progresse à petits pas en Afrique

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rfi.fr (27.10.2017) Le Rwanda est souvent cité en exemple pour son assurance maladie obligatoire, suivi par d’autres pays, qui restent cependant minoritaires et ont du mal à couvrir l’intégralité de la population. Tour d’horizon, de la Côte d’Ivoire au Ghana, en passant par le Rwanda, le Kenya et le Gabon.

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Africa
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Extension of coverage
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The ILO and the United Nations Climate Change Conference - COP23

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ILO (03.11.2017) The annual United Nations Climate Change Conference will be presided by Fiji and held in Bonn, Germany from 6-17 November 2017. This twenty-third session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP23) will meet with the aim to advance the aims and ambitions of the Paris Agreement and achieve progress on its implementation guidelines.

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Argentina: El Gobierno invertirá casi 70% del Presupuesto total en gasto social

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El Economista (01.11.2017) El gasto social es una de las piedras angulares del plan económico de Cambiemos, tal como había sido con el kirchnerismo y como ocurre, en rigor, en gran parte del mundo (incluso en países desarrollados). Aquello que el mercado no otorga, es el Estado el que pone la diferencia para garantizar la paz social y un piso de ingresos.

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argentina
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Financing
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UK: 15% have access to a return-to-work programme at their organisation

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employeebenefits (01.11.2017) More than one in 10 (15%) of respondents state that their organisation currently has a return-to-work programme in place, according to research by Hays. Its Hays UK gender diversity report 2017, which surveyed 5,400 UK respondents, also found that 70% of respondents believe that there would be greater gender equality if more return-to-work programmes, or similar initiatives, were introduced.

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Family benefits
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[Opinion] How AI Can Help Africa Get Universal Health Care Before America

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newsweek (31.10.2017) While American politicians quarrel over the Affordable Care Act, the United States—one of the few industrialized countries without universal health care—still spends twice as much per person per year on health expenses as the U.K. and Canada. For all the debates over Obamacare, however, America boasts 38 MRI machines per one million people: Nigeria, a country of 180 million people, has only four. Across Africa, the ratio of doctors to patients is painfully low.

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Health
Health insurance
Technological transition
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Economic impact
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WHO and ITU to use digital technology to strengthen public health services in Africa

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afro.who (26.10.2017) With Africa currently undergoing a digital revolution, the World Health Organization Regional Office for Africa and the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) today signed a Cooperation Agreement in Geneva, on using digital services to save lives and improve people’s health.

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Africa
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Health
Health promotion
Service quality
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Economic impact
Societal Impact
Service delivery
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France: Vers une profonde évolution du système français de protection sociale

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Le Monde (31.11.2017) Après quatre jours de débats, le projet de loi de financement de la Sécurité sociale pour 2018 devait être adopté, mardi, par un vote solennel des députés.  Après quatre jours de débats parfois houleux, le projet de loi de financement de la Sécurité sociale (PLFSS) pour 2018 devait être adopté, mardi 31 octobre, par un vote solennel de l’Assemblée nationale. Ce premier et copieux PLFSS du quinquennat d’Emmanuel Macron acte de profonds changements du système de protection sociale français.

 

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france
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Social policies & programmes
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