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South Korea: State health insurance agency wins international award

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Korea Biomedical Review (01.10.2018) National Health Insurance Service(NHIS) will receive a special achievement award for introducing Public Health Alarm Service, at the Asia-Pacific Social Security Forum under the sponsorship of International Social Security Association (ISSA).

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France: Doctolib, leader français du rendez-vous médical en ligne, s’attaque à la téléconsultation

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Le Monde (27.09.2018) Doctolib, le leader français de la prise de rendez-vous médicaux en ligne ne cesse de grandir. Jeudi 27 septembre au matin, il inaugurait son « Health Tech Center », qui sur 1 000 mètres carrés, rue de Monceau, dans le 8e arrondissement de Paris, va accueillir 100 ingénieurs cette année – dont la plupart font déjà partie des effectifs de la société –, et 50 de plus en 2019. La structure est appelée à accueillir des intervenants extérieurs pour réfléchir au futur des systèmes de santé.

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france
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Data management
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Suisse: Alain Berset annonce une hausse modérée des primes... jusqu'à quand?

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Le Temps (24.09.2018) En moyenne, les primes maladie n'augmenteront que de 1,2% en 2019. Reste à savoir si cette embellie sur le front des coûts de la santé n'est que passagère où si elle annonce une tendance lourde

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switzerland
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Financing

Thailand: Ministry plans to cover 1m more informal-sector workers for social security

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Nationmultimedia.com(04.09.2018) The labour Ministry hopes to cover an additional one million informal-sector workers as voluntarily-insured people for social security payments starting in 2019.

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thailand
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[Report] Spain's health system resilient despite economic crisis

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Euro.WHO (August 2018) The underlying principles and goals of the Spanish national health system continue to focus on universality, free access, equity and fairness of financing. The evolution of performance measures over the last decade shows the resilience of the health system to macroeconomic conditions, although some structural reforms may be required to improve chronic-care management and the reallocation of resources to high-value interventions.

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spain
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Health promotion
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Ghana: Thinking outside the box gives public insurance scheme a huge boost

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ILO (14.08.2018) Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) has an ambitious goal: to achieve universal health coverage. However, the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) realized that its membership had plateaued at about 40 per cent of the population a few years ago and has remained unchanged to date. In addition, the NHIS, like many national health schemes, faces financial challenges, with a limited ability to raise additional funding through taxation or other revenue sources. All money flowing through the NHIA for claims or operations must therefore be wisely spent.

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ghana
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Health promotion
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[Report] WHO/Europe: Estonian health system review shows great progress and opportunities for improvement

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Euro WHO (August 2018) This analysis of the Estonian health system reviews recent developments in organization and governance, health financing, health-care provision, health reforms and health system performance. In 2017, the Estonian government took the historic step of expanding the revenue base of the health system, which has been a longstanding challenge. However, in terms of percentage of gross domestic product (GDP) it remains a small increase and long-term financial sustainability could still pose a problem.

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estonia
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Health promotion
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