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China eager to embrace tech to meet overflowing health care demands

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 South China Morning Post (02.07.2018) Patients need to have plenty of patience, especially in China’s under-resourced health care system where rural parents often travel with their sick children to seek treatment at Beijing’s Children Hospital but end up having to literally camp outside because of a shortage of lodgings in the city, or where the needs of the ageing population are rising with more than 200 million people aged over 60, equivalent to the entire population of Indonesia.

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china
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Old-age pensions
Information and communication technology

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Older Russians fear pension reform will hit income

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Financial Times (02.07.2018) The Russian government announced its reform plans on the eve of the World Cup, distracting public attention from the shock. They are potentially one of the most far-reaching economic changes of President Vladimir Putin’s latest six-year term, following his re-election in March. But in the country’s poorer cities and regions fear and anger are building.

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Russian Federation
Global challenges
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Pensions
Financing
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Maroc: Conventions internationales de sécurité sociale : 80% des MRE désormais couverts

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Aujourd'hui le Maroc (01.07.2018) Au titre de l’année 2017, la Caisse a traité plus de 160.000 dossiers de remboursement. A cela s’ajoutent 8.516 dossiers concernant la retraite ou la pension de vieillesse. Ces chiffres montrent que les journées d’information qui sont menées par la CNSS tout au long de l’année ont porté leurs fruits.

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comoros
Global challenges
Topics
Extension of coverage

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A Welcome Message from Distinguished Leaders for IFDM 2018 9th World Congress on Return-to-Work & Disability Management

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Ottawa Citizen (28.06.2918) The International Forum on Disability Management (IFDM) started with a vision: to gather leading representatives of stakeholders in disability management and return-to-work from all over the world in order to assemble global perspectives on consensus-based best practices, cutting edge research, successful disability management and return-to-work policies and programs.

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Disability
Return to work

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European Union: Coordination of social security systems: Council agrees general approach

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europa.eu (21.06.2018) The revision of the regulations on coordination of social security systems aims at modernising the rules by bringing them in line with the development of national social security systems, as well as making them clearer, fairer and simpler to enforce. This will make it easier for people to move freely within the EU.

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Europe
Global challenges
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Social policies & programmes
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France: Les pistes de l’Assurance-maladie pour améliorer l’accès aux « bons soins »

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Le Monde (29.06.2018) La CNAM souligne les risques de surmortalité pour les patientes opérées d’un cancer du sein dans les hôpitaux réalisant peu d’actes.

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france
Global challenges
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Financing
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Skill shift: Automation and the future of the workforce

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McKinsey & Company (May 2018) Demand for technological, social and emotional, and higher cognitive skills will rise by 2030. How will workers and organizations adapt?

Global challenges
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Employment
Digital Economy Topical Cluster
Labour market
Large-scale automation
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[Opinion] Suisse: Dépenses de santé: vers d’inévitables arbitrages

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Le Temps (28.06.2018) Plutôt que de se focaliser sur une médecine de pointe, le débat sur le coût de la santé devrait davantage prendre en compte les dépenses de prévention, estime le médecin Julien Dupraz

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switzerland
Global challenges
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Health promotion
Financing
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Suisse: Réforme de l'AVS: La retraite des femmes à 65 ans, avec compensation

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TDG (28.06.2018) La nouvelle réforme de l'AVS fera grimper la TVA d'au plus 1,5%, mais elle n'épargnera pas les femmes. Dans le projet dévoilé jeudi, le Conseil fédéral confirme sa volonté de les faire travailler jusqu'à 65 ans, et ce sans compensation généreuse.

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switzerland
Topics
Pensions
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España: El Gobierno ultima el decreto para recuperar la sanidad universal

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EL PAÍS (27.06.2018) La sanidad pública atenderá a todos los residentes en España por su condición de ciudadanos, no de asegurados que se han ganado la atención médica por cotizar a la Seguridad Social. Este es uno de los cambios fundamentales que prevé introducir el Ministerio de Sanidad en el real decreto por el que devolverá la atención sanitaria a los inmigrantes irregulares, según la documentación enviada por el departamento de la ministra Carmen Montón a las comunidades autónomas y a la que ha tenido acceso

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spain
Topics
Migration
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