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  • Improving the healthcare system in Moldova

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    Global healthcare spending has increased faster than global economic growth. This faster pace of growth is due to the lack of effective economic and health policy-making but is also driven by the global economic crisis and the growing number of people using health services. When it comes to healthcare, all […]

  • Senior Sport School - A Swedish Initiative that Should be Exported Everywhere in Europe. Photo by Skaneidrotten on Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0

    How we eat, drink and move

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    Healthcare reform has triggered many controversies in Romania ranging from street protests in January 2012 over a new healthcare bill to massive online activism just a year later against government plans to prevent citizens from using their mandatory health insurance in private hospitals. To be really honest and without being […]

  • Healthcare is a human right - even without paying for it. (Photo by DonkeyHotey on FlickR CC BY-SA 2.0)

    This is Not What We Paid For

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    In spite of the recent downturn in the economy, Hungary is still considered a welfare state. Political statements echo this view, claiming that healthcare is for free. The moves by the former government, which tried to implement a “visit fee” of one Euro to help finance healthcare, are often criticized, […]

  • If doctors were our lovers…

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    Should you ever end up on the operating table in Romania, one of the last thoughts that might go through your mind before passing out is: “Did I pay the doctor enough?” Photo: The U.S. National Archives For a long time, as a child, I was convinced my grandmother was […]