In the majority of the post-communist countries, the necessary preconditions of a Long-term Care Insurance system are simply not there...

CEE health care and pharma market Importance of the FP7 Public Health call; "Financing Systems' Effect on Healthcare Quality" Scope of InterQuality project. objectives, budget and time-frame Expected impact Consortium Members, Advisory Board ...

Unfavourable change in the proportion between professionally active and non-active part of the society; Increased share of senior citizens with higher probability of chronic diseases...

Where are we?; Driving Forces; Modelling the Impacts; Conclusions and policy implications...

Age wave is coming into the CR very soon. It will lead (along with other things) to huge change in health - social services structure. This challenge will require radical rechaping of public funding of health and social services. HalthRefom.cz proposed substancial messure: public sponsored...

Demographic information about Poland: aging of population, disability rates; Long term care services: Types of services, trends in use of LTC...

Slovenia does not have a uniformly organised system of long-term care for eldery, chronically ill, disabled and other persons who need help in performing ADL and IADL...

Weather and climate are among the factors that determine the geographic range and incidence of several major causes of ill health, including morbidity and mortality due to temperature extremes, other extreme weather events...

People in emerging markets are finding it difficult to fund their healthcare needs. Health protection gaps in emerging markets require flexible and creative responses from the private health insurance industry that address the needs of vulnerable people who have so far been denied suitable and...