Posts Tagged ‘Spain’
Spain has announced further health spending cuts, this time affecting immigrants. The cuts, expected to save €1.5 billion a year, will leave large numbers of illegal immigrants without access to healthcare. This decision contradicts a main pillar of Spain’s welfare policy, free healthcare for anyone in need. The government puts the number of people potentially [...]
With Spain’s economy recently slipping back into a recession. As part of new cost saving measures pensioners are being asked to start paying for their prescriptions. The plan aims to save €3,700 million in healthcare. Retired and elderly expatriates will be required to pay 10% of the cost of their medicine. Those receiving the smallest [...]
Retiring abroad needs to be carefully planned – finances, expected living costs, accommodation and insurance are some of the things that need to be considered. One of the things on many retiree minds is the quality of health care in their new home. Expat Health has put together information on health care in some top [...]
Researchers have discovered a new Ebola-like virus, Lloviu virus, in bats from northern Spain. Lloviu is the first known filovirus native to Europe. Filoviruses, which include Ebola and Marburg, are among the deadliest pathogens in humans. They are generally found in East Africa and the Philippines. The study’s findings represent a significant expansion in the [...]
Austerity measures designed to keep Spain’s public finances afloat are strangling the public health system, according to Reuters report by Paul Day. Regional governments cannot afford to pay hospitals and pharmaceutical companies (multinational Roche says the Castilla y Leon region is 900 days behind on its bills). Elsewhere doctors fear for their jobs. According to [...]
Climate change that has occurred since the 1970s caused an extra 140,000 deaths a year up till 2004, according to the World Health Organization. That rate is now due to rise even further, says the Climate-TRAP project’s health impact assessment. It claims Belgium, France, Spain and Portugal will see the largest increases in “ozone-related deaths” [...]
Local health systems can be intimidating to some expats, who fear language barriers and lower quality care than what they are used to in their home countries. This sometimes drives them to purchase costly private insurance plans or seek care at private clinics. This is not the case for everyone, however. Lisa Sadleir, who blogs [...]
Recent OECD statistics paint a grim picture of obesity in the UK: nearly 25% of Britons are obese and over 60% overweight, compared to an average of 16% and 50% for the OECD as a whole. And while the British can take comfort in the fact that England is far from the fattest country in [...]
16 people have died and more than 1,000 are ill (with 400 of those in critical condition) due to a sudden outbreak of E. coli, according to the latest reports from Europe. Originally confined to Germany, cases have since been reported in Denmark, France, the Czech Republic, the U.K., the Netherlands, Switzerland and now even [...]
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