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The Costa Rican Social Security Fund or Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social (as it is known in Spanish) is in charge of most of the nation's public health sector. Its role in public health (as the administrator of health institutions) is key in Costa Rica, playing an important part in the state's national health policy making.
Hospital Dr Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia, built in 1946 (rebuilt in 1990 and 2015) Centro Nacional de Rehabilitación, built in 1973; Hospital Dr. Raúl Blanco Cervantes (for gerontological and geriatric healthcare), built in 1950 and rebuilt in 2016; Hospital Nacional de las Mujeres Dr Ricardo Carit Eva; Hospital México, built in 1969
In 1941, Costa Rica established Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social (CCSS), a social security insurance system for wage-earning workers. In 1961, coverage was expanded to include workers' dependents and from 1961 to 1975, a series of expansions extended coverage for primary care and outpatient and inpatient specialized services to people in ...
Development of life expectancy in Costa Rica Hospital Calderón Guardia, named after the president who instituted universal health care across the country in 1941 According to the UNDP , in 2010, the life expectancy at birth for Costa Ricans was 79.3 years. [ 163 ]
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Universal health care was next introduced in the Nordic countries of Sweden (1955), [18] Iceland (1956), [19] Norway (1956), [20] Denmark (1961) [21] and Finland (1964). [22] Universal health insurance was introduced in Japan in 1961, and in Canada through stages, starting with the province of Saskatchewan in 1962, followed by the rest of ...
Images of U.S. Presidential candidates, Former U.S. President Donald Trump and U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris are displayed before Trump's rally at the Madison Square Garden in New York City, U ...
In 2002, Taiwan had nearly 1.6 physicians and 5.9 hospital beds per 1,000 population, and there were a total of 36 hospitals and 2,601 clinics in the island. [22] Health expenditures constituted 5.8% of the GDP in 2001, 64.9% of which coming from public funds.