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Occupational medicine: Prevention 40+ obligatory program?

MedExpress Team

Medexpress

Published April 26, 2022 08:22

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Fot. Wojciech Górski
Prevention 40+ will become an obligatory program, implemented as part of occupational medicine, and the sugar fee will be followed by other pro-health solutions, the revenues from which will contribute to the health care budget? This is the result of the statement by the Minister of Health, Adam Niedzielski, who participated in the European Economic Congress in Katowice on Monday.

The Minister of Health assessed that in recent years - including those before the pandemic - Poland has made a big step towards building a shock-resistant health care system. As proof, he primarily indicated decisions increasing the financing of health protection (before the pandemic - up to 6% of GDP, recently - up to 7%, which are to be achieved in 2024).

- All additional tasks that burden the system are not financed from the health insurance contribution, but from budget funds or special funds that are set aside for these purposes - said the head of the Ministry of Health. - They will finance these additional tasks, which is so important that it does not deplete the resources that should be allocated to treatment. This minimizes the effect of limited availability for other patients - said Niedzielski.

The minister explained that another important element for stability is the issue of diver...

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