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France: Covid-19 : des arrêts de travail simplifiés pour les salariés contraints de garder leurs enfants

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ameli.fr (13.03.2020) Un téléservice, « declare.ameli.fr », est mis en place par l’Assurance Maladie pour permettre aux employeurs de déclarer leurs salariés contraints de rester à domicile suite à la fermeture de l’établissement accueillant leur enfant, sans possibilité de télétravail. Cette déclaration fait office d’avis d’arrêt de travail.

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Canada: Feds take digital step to reshape benefits system for expat seniors

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CTV News (26.07.2019) The federal government is moving to trade, in bulk, information on expatriate seniors with other countries to save time and money when one of them dies.

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Improving Forecasting of Pharmaceutical Spending

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OECD  - The advent of the direct acting anti-virals (DAAs) for hepatitis C, the increasing use of high cost biologics, and the escalating launch prices of oncology medicines in particular, have raised concerns that pharmaceutical expenditure growth could become increasingly difficult to sustain. In order to ensure adequate resource mobilisation, and to manage the entry of major new therapies, many countries see value in trying to anticipate changes in market dynamics and by doing so, to attempt to forecast future pharmaceutical expenditure.

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US: Daily on Healthcare: Medicare for All goes way beyond other countries’ universal healthcare plans

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washingtonexaminer (15.04.2019) he Medicare for All Act, the latest proposal to have the government become the only payer of healthcare services, is often billed by its supporters as a step toward realizing a similar system that other developed nations have in place.

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Le champignon microscopique “Candida auris”, une menace grandissante pour la santé publique

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Une mystérieuse infection due à un champignon résistant aux traitements se développe dans le monde, et ce dans un climat de secret

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Long-Term Care: An Actuarial Perspective on Societal and Personal Challenges

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As populations age over the next several decades, the demand for long-term care (LTC) services (assisting individuals with their activities of daily life) will increase dramatically and is likely to reach crisis levels in many countries. Societies will have to confront this emerging need because historical methods for providing and financing LTC may not be adequate to address future LTC needs.

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L’assurance autonomie: Une innovation essentielle pour répondre aux défi s du vieillissement

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The aging population and the epidemic of chronic diseases requires an accompanying fi nance reform of long-term care
that will become increasingly dominant. Many countries have faced this situation and have set up a separate public
funding for such care on the basis of a universal insurance covering both home care and institutions. Canada and Quebec
must adopt such autonomy insurance and create a separate fund fi nanced partly by a more judicious use of current

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GRANDEURS ET MISÈRES DE L'ALLOCATION PERSONNALISÉE D'AUTONOMIE EN FRANCE

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Le vieillissement de la population et la pandémie de maladies chroniques
qui l’accompagne obligent à prioriser le financement des soins à long terme
qui deviendront de plus en plus importants. De nombreux pays ayant fait
face à cette situation ont mis sur pied un financement public distinct via une
assurance universelle couvrant les soins à domicile et en institution comme
c’est le cas en France avec l’Allocation personnalisée d’autonomie (APA).
À la lumière des comparaisons internationales, nous identifions certaines

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Du rapport Laroque à la loi relative à l’adaptation de la société au vieillissement : cinquante-cinq ans de politique vieillesse en France

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La misE En oeuvrE des politiques sociales destinées explicitement à « traiter » la problématique du vieillissement remonte, en Europe, à la fin du xixe siècle et au début du xxe siècle. directement liée à la naissance et à l’affirmation des états-nations, elle répondait à deux grandes préoccupations:

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Une santé hors de prix aux Etats-Unis | Alternatives Economiques

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démonstration de l'inefficacité de la privatisation de la protection sociale : l'exemple des Etats Unis

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