sciencedaily.com (06.07.2016) Obese children aged 2-5 years old are two to three times more likely to be admitted to hospital and have 60 percent higher healthcare costs than healthy weight children, a study an Australian research team has found. This is the first study to reveal the higher direct health care costs of obesity in preschool aged children compared with those of normal weight.

Service public (15.06.2016) Depuis le 10 juin 2016, les pathologies psychiques peuvent être plus facilement reconnues comme des maladies professionnelles. Toutes les affections psychiques sont concernées et notamment le syndrome d'épuisement professionnel, communément appelé « burn-out ».

Metro News (07.07.2016) Baisser le montant de sa prime d'assurance santé en soignant son hygiène de vie : c'est ce qu'une grande compagnie d'assurance va proposer en France en 2017. Ce qui suscite des craintes auprès du ministère de la Santé.

Sen 24 heures (04.07.2016) Le programme de Couverture maladie universelle (CMU) vise un taux de 75 % en 2017. À un an et demi de l’échéance, le pourcentage se situe à 47 %. Dans le dossier qu’Enquête a consacré à la CMU dans son édition de ce lundi, le directeur général de l’Agence de la CMU, Cheikh Mbengue, se veut optimiste. « L’objectif est atteignable, clame-t-il. (…) Avec ce que nous sommes en train de faire, nous espérons qu’il y aura un basculement vers les mutuelles de santé d’ici à 2017.

lesechos.fr (01.07.2016) Le GPIF, fonds de pension japonais, a subi une lourde perte lors de son exercice 2015-2016. C’est la conséquence de la chute de la Bourse de Tokyo, mais aussi de son changement de stratégie.

ILO/News (07.07.2016) A new study by the International Labour Organization’s Bureau for Employers’ Activities shows that the robot age is already a reality in ASEAN countries. More than 60 per cent of enterprises surveyed in the region see new technologies as a positive for increasing sales, labour productivity and employment of highly skilled workers.

Graphic Online (05.07.2016) A trust is to be established to provide an opportunity to mobilise funds largely from outside the Consolidated Fund, to help with the implementation of the Ghana National Social Protection Policy (GNSPP) over the next 15 years.  

News Source Guyana (05.07.2016) Minister Lawrence described it as ‘double dipping’ when persons not living in Guyana, access pension from both the Guyanese government and the country in which they live.

npr.org (05.07.2016) The Obama administration is making a push to get young adults covered on the health insurance marketplaces, both for their own good and that of the marketplaces. The insurance exchanges need healthy people to balance sicker ones in the risk pool. Despite beefed-up outreach planned for the coming months, several factors may throw a wrench into enrollment plans for young people.

developmentpathways.co.uk (08.06.2016) In a recent ECLAC book titled “Towards universal social protection: Latin American pathways and policy tools”, edited together with Fernando Filgueira, Rodrigo Martínez and Cecilia Rossel, we show that, since the beginning of the 21st century, the region has been undergoing a vigorous transformation in its social protection policies, with a growing proportion of the population accessing plans which, themselves, are of higher quality and paying higher value transfers.