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Estados Unidos: El Senado abre el debate sobre del Obamacare, pero fracasa en su primer intento de liquidarlo

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El País (26.07.2017) Vuelta a empezar. Donald Trump no está dispuesto a dar su brazo a torcer. Tras el fracaso de la semana pasada, el presidente logró el martes un paso clave en la liquidación del Obamacare, el sistema sanitario que desde su implantación en 2010 ha dado cobertura a 20 millones de ciudadanos. En una tensa sesión en el Senado, los conservadores, con el voto de calidad del vicepresidente Mike Pence, presidente de la Cámara, aprobaron abrir el debate de la reforma sanitaria.

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[Report] WHO/Europe: Measuring Efficiency in Health Care

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WHO (July 2017) Eurohealth Observer - Identify the causes of inefficiencies in health systems, The challenges of using cross-national comparisons of efficiency to inform health policy; Eurohealth International – Big data for public health: Does the data promise a better quality of life?, The SELFIE Framework for Integrated Care for Multi-Morbidity, Time to focus on benefits beyond the health sector: the example of health literacy, New draft EU Directive submits the regulation of health professions to a proportionality test; Eurohealth Systems and Policies - New measures to increase the heal

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República Dominicana: Seguridad Social crece y se democratiza; más dominicanos tienen acceso a un seguro de salud

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Hoy Digital (01.08.2017) El director ejecutivo del Seguro Nacional de Salud (SeNaSa), Chanel Rosa Chupany, destacó que República Dominicana pasó de ser uno de los países con menos afiliación a la seguridad social en América Latina y El Caribe, a ser el cuarto país de la región con más personas afiliadas a un seguro de salud. Actualmente 72% de los dominicanos están afiliados a un seguro de salud.

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Estados Unidos: Rosselló quiere "transformar" el sistema de salud en Puerto Rico

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El Nuevo Día (05.08.2017) El gobernador de Puerto Rico, Ricardo Rosselló, convirtió hoy con su firma en ley seis proyectos dirigidos a mejorar el acceso a los servicios de salud.

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How biology and technology can impact our health

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Swiss Re Institute (07.07.2017) We live in a world with increasingly uncertain health outcomes. Individuals from developed economies have been living longer for many decades. However, those gains are beginning to be reversed in some countries, particularly within certain communities. Sensor technology is increasingly being deployed to counter these trends.

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US spends big on health care but doesn't get much back, study says

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CNBC (13.07.2017) Health care accounts for 16.6 percent of U.S. gross domestic product. Despite the amount the U.S. spends on health care, its system ranks dead last in a study of 11 high-income countries. The U.S. is the only nation included in the study that does not offer universal health insurance coverage.

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