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Etudes par pays volume 2, PDF, 346 p., 1,4 Mo - Femise

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11873_02 Study D2: Poverty, Informal Sector, Health and Labour<br />

services, communicable diseases control, environmental sanitation, health<br />

education, <strong>par</strong>asitic and endemic diseases control, school health services,<br />

curative and emergency care (general practitioner level), family planning<br />

and dental care.<br />

Health care is delivered throughout public facilities, non-governmental<br />

organizations and the private sector. Public health facilities include:<br />

- Ministry of Health and Population (MOHP) owned facilities, which are<br />

mostly rural facilities, urban facilities, and secondary and tertiary<br />

hospitals for curative care.<br />

- Health insurance organization owned facilities, which provide services to<br />

employees, students, widows, pensioners and new born (about 45% of<br />

the Egypt population).<br />

- Curative care organization which runs some big hospitals and offers care<br />

for fixed fee.<br />

- Teaching hospitals and Technical Institutes Organization.<br />

- University Medical Teaching Hospitals, which have two systems, either<br />

completely free of charge curative services or fixed fee for service for<br />

those who can pay.<br />

Many NGO’s have health clinics and hospitals which offer services for<br />

reasonable prices to the public.<br />

The private sector plays an important role. It includes both formal and<br />

informal sectors. It manages private clinics or well-established specialized<br />

hospitals where people pay relative high fees for what they consider better<br />

services. This network also includes general practitioners, specialists,<br />

dentists, laboratories, pharmacists etc.<br />

During the nineties, the government was committed to the objective “health<br />

for all by the year 2000”. The government placed priority on meeting<br />

children’s health needs focusing on national programs to control diarrhea<br />

and acute respiratory infections and expanded childhood immunization<br />

program. Achievements were attained in the areas of high vaccination<br />

coverage, better health indices, especially infant mortality and life<br />

expectancy, and lower prevalence of intestinal <strong>par</strong>asites and schistosomiasis.<br />

FONDAZIONE CENSIS<br />

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