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Germany has a universal [1] multi-payer health care system paid for by a combination of statutory health insurance (Gesetzliche Krankenversicherung) and private health insurance (Private Krankenversicherung). [2][3][4][5][6] The turnover of the national health sector was about US$368.78 billion (€287.3 billion) in 2010, equivalent to 11.6 ...
FRANKFURT (Reuters) -Germany's public health insurance scheme can cover certain patients with a risk of heart disease or strokes to take the weight-loss Wegovy drug, a big boost for Novo Nordisk's ...
Health in Germany. Germany ranked 20th in the world in life expectancy in 2014 with 76.5 years for men and 82.1 years for women. It had a very low infant mortality rate (4.3 per 1,000 live births), and it was eighth place in the number of practicing physicians, at 3.3 per 1,000 people. A new measure of expected human capital calculated for 195 ...
Health care reform measures in Germany are designated by the legislature for the organization of the health care system. The main aim of such reforms is to curb the increase of costs in statutory health insurance (for example, by stabilizing the contribution rate and, thus, non-wage labor costs by reducing benefits, increasing co-payments or by changing the remuneration of service providers). [1]
Germany has many test laboratories and a weekly test capacity of 160 thousand and could have a lower number of unrecorded cases of infections than for example Italy, though the number of tests including negative results was unknown until 23 March. [13] Italy has several times fewer hospital beds for intensive respiratory care than Germany.
Germany has a common National Pandemic Plan, [64] which describes the responsibilities and measures of the health care system actors in case of a huge epidemic. Epidemic control is executed both by the federal authorities such as Robert Koch Institute and by the German states.
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The COVID-19 vaccination campaign in Germany began on 26 December 2020. [2] As of 16 December 2021, 60,679,186 people have received at least one dose (73% of total population), while 58,174,724 people have been fully vaccinated (70% of total population). [3] And as of 8 April 2023, 63.6 million people (76.4% of the total population) received ...