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UAE's Low-income Migrant Workers Have Little Access to Social Protection beyond Health Insurance, Finds Study

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ZAWYA (16.04.2018)  Research investigates key concerns, insurance awareness levels and remittance habits of low-income migrant workers in the country

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United Arab Emirates
Global challenges
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Health
Difficult-to-cover groups
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[Opinión] El rol de todos en la salud universal

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El Economista (03.04.2018) Este sábado 7 de abril se conmemorará el Día Mundial de la Salud con el lema anual “Todo mundo tiene un papel que desempeñar”. En el marco del Día Mundial de la Salud, promovido por la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS), cada año se dedica un lema a un tema de salud pública que atañe a los diferentes países miembros de la organización.

Global challenges
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Health promotion
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L’Afrique face au défi de l’accès aux médicaments

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EurActiv (28.03.2018) Face aux nombreuses difficultés d’accès aux médicaments en Afrique, les États africains tentent d’organiser le marché pour augmenter la production locale, qui ne pèse que 3 % de la production mondiale.

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Africa
Global challenges
Topics
Financing
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Le Brexit pose déjà problème au système de santé britannique –

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EURACTIV (16.03.2018)  Allongement de l’attente, pénurie d’employés, retard dans l’approbation de nouveaux médicaments : le Brexit entraîne déjà une série de problèmes pour les soins des Britannique

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united kingdom
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Health
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[Opinion] Why It’s So Hard to Reform Canadian Health Care

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The New York Times (24.03.2018) Too many Canadians and Americans are negatively fixated on each other’s health systems — and the distortions that accompany so many conversations about health reform make it harder to improve care on both sides of the border.

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canada
Global challenges
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Health
Health insurance
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Cambodia: New National Social Security Fund Rules Introduced

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Mondaq /22.03.2018) The requirement that all Cambodian employers register their enterprises and employees with the National Social Security Fund is one of a number of changes introduced in recent months as part of the implementation of the health care insurance scheme.

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cambodia
Global challenges
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Health
Extension of coverage
Difficult-to-cover groups
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India: The road to universal health coverage

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In 2005, the Government of India launched the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), promising to re-imagine primary healthcare and address the under-served needs of rural areas.

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india
Global challenges
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Health insurance
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Schweiz: Elektronisches Patientendossier: Datenschutz als Stolperstein

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Netzwoche (07.03.2018) Das Swiss E-Health Barometer hat die Einführung des elektronischen Patientendossiers unter die Lupe genommen. Das Fazit: Die Ärzte zögern und die Bevölkerung verliert das Interesse am Thema. Hauptsorge ist der Datenschutz.   Alljährlich untersucht der Swiss E-Health Barometer, was die Gesundheitsbranche in Sachen Digitalisierung umtreibt. Ein Schwerpunkt der diesjährigen, mittlerweile 8. Umfrage: die Einführung des elektronischen Patientendossiers (EPD), die seit April 2017 im Gange ist.

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switzerland
Global challenges
Topics
Information and communication technology
Data management
Digital Economy Topical Cluster
Big Data
Digital Economy Observatory : Only Tags
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France: L'intelligence artificielle dans la santé ouvre le champ des possibles

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Les Echos (03.03.2018) La masse de données manipulées par le secteur médical offre d'innombrables perspectives d'exploitation pour améliorer la prise en charge individuelle des patients.
 

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france
Global challenges
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Health
Information and communication technology

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[Report] WHO: How to make sense of health system efficiency comparisons?

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WHO (01.03.2018) Improving health system efficiency is a compelling policy goal, especially in systems facing serious resource constraints. However, in order to improve efficiency we must know how to properly measure it. This new policy brief therefore proposes an analytic framework for understanding and interpreting many of the most common health care efficiency indicators.

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Europe
Global challenges
Topics
Health
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