Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
University Hospitals Leuven Sint-Rafael AZ Groeninge. Belgium has a universal healthcare system, [1] which is composed of three parts: first, there is a primarily publicly funded health care and social security service run by the federal government, which organises and regulates healthcare; independent private/public practitioners, university/semi-private hospitals and care institutions.
The National Institute for Health and Disability Insurance (NIHDI) is a federal public body of social security in Belgium.Under the authority of the Belgian federal minister of Social Affairs and Public Health, it is responsible for administering the country's compulsory national schemes for health insurance and disability benefits, and manages a compensation fund for medical accidents.
The Flemish Government introduced an additional insurance for non-medical care (Dutch: zorgverzekering) in 2001, which proved to be controversial and has a relatively long legal history. Healthcare and social security in Belgium are federal matters, but the special law of Belgium grants the three communities several competences like "assistance ...
Government-guaranteed health care for all citizens of a country, often called universal health care, is a broad concept that has been implemented in several ways.The common denominator for all such programs is some form of government action aimed at broadly extending access to health care and setting minimum standards.
The Agency for Care and Health (in Dutch: Agentschap Zorg en Gezondheid) is an agency of the Flemish Government. The Flemish Government is the executive branch of the Flemish Community of Belgium. In Belgium, the Communities are responsible for certain aspects of social care, health care and public health policy.
Germany has the world's oldest national social health insurance system, [1] with origins dating back to Otto von Bismarck's Sickness Insurance Law of 1883. [2] [3] In Britain, the National Insurance Act 1911 included national social health insurance for primary care (not specialist or hospital care), initially for about one-third of the population—employed working class wage earners, but not ...
During the first wave of the pandemic last spring, the country of 11.5 million people recorded a majority of its COVID-19-related deaths in care homes. Report: Care homes policies violated human ...
Decision 2003/751; European Union decision: Text with EEA relevance: Title: Decision No 189 of 18 June 2003 aimed at introducing a European health insurance card to replace the forms necessary for the application of Council Regulations (EEC) No 1408/71 and (EEC) No 574/72 as regards access to health care during a temporary stay in a Member State other than the competent state or the state of ...