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By R. Barbosa, Y. Charpak, S. Turner, E. Ziglio

Future health care platforms around the WHO eu zone have performed and are doing a lot to take on the complicated and daunting challenge of poverty and well-being. This e-book describes 12 tasks already undertaken in 10 WHO Member States. It records who is initial findings on how healthiness care platforms can assist to relieve poverty, and reaches 3 major conclusions: health and wellbeing care structures can certainly take powerful motion to enhance the overall healthiness of the bad; occasionally wellbeing and fitness care structures can really symbolize an extra barrier for the bad and there's an pressing desire for extra wisdom, education and capacity-building during this region. it really is was hoping that the knowledge provided right here will give a contribution to the efforts to enhance overall healthiness and raise fairness by way of tackling poverty and its results on overall healthiness around the size and breadth of Europe.

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One that government offices are facing is the problem of control. “It’s the corollary of the spirit of trust embodied in the Act,” explains Carcenac. “We trust people by agreeing to base our action on their statements. The corollary is that we can check what they say. At the beginning, we were in a start-up phase. ” Another difficulty is that health professionals, on whom the operation of the CMU system partly depends (because they agree not to exceed the charges agreed), do not always “play the game”.

Les bénéficiaires de la couverture maladie universelle au 30 septembre 2001. Paris, Direction de la Recherche, des Etudes, de l’Evaluation et des Statistiques, 2002 (Etudes et Résultats, No. 158). 14 Ibid. 39 Health systems confront poverty A young and female population Another DREES study15 in November 2000 defined the target populations more accurately. Recipients of CMU are primarily women (55%) and young people (39% are under 20). Some 6% are over 60 and, among people of working age (20–59 years), 40% are unemployed.

Up to 1992, benefits were awarded to the very poor on request, each time they needed treatment. This system created inequities: not only did people in need have to apply each time they had a health problem, but they were also treated very differently from one département to another. As of 1992, requests were still submitted to the administrative services of the département, but they were handled in cooperation with the local offices of the national health insurance fund (caisses primaires d’assurance maladie, CPAM).

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