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The principal cause of death in 2011 was cardiovascular disease at 41.7% for men and 55.4% for women, followed by tumours, at 31.7% for men and 22.8% for women. In 2012 only 20 Croatians had been infected with HIV/AIDS and 6 had died from the disease. In 2008 it was estimated by the WHO that 27.4%
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Healthcare expenditures comprise 0.6% of private health insurance and public spending. In 2012, Croatia spent 6.8% of its GDP on healthcare, down from approximately 8% estimated in 2008, when 84% of healthcare spending came from public sources. Croatia ranked around the 50th in the world in life
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system, whose roots can be traced back to the Hungarian-Croatian Parliament Act of 1891, providing a form of mandatory insurance of all factory workers and craftsmen. The population is covered by a basic health insurance plan provided by statute and optional insurance and administered by the
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placed it 16th in Europe, commenting that it did well with kidney transplants, performing more than 50 per million per year, and speculating that it might become a health tourism destination, as a state-of-the-art hip joint operation can be had for €3000.
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of Croatians over age of 15 are smokers. According to 2003 WHO data, 22% of the Croatian adult population is obese. It had the second lowest rate of death from communicable diseases in Europe (12 per 100,000) in 2015.
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There are hundreds of healthcare institutions in Croatia, including 79 hospitals and clinics with 25,285 beds, caring for more than 760,000 patients per year. Ownership of hospitals is shared between the state and the
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The country had a national response to the pandemic, with a crisis headquarters formed by the government, led by the Minister of Health and including contributions from the
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from 19 to 21 February tested positive and was hospitalised at the University Hospital for Infectious Diseases Dr. Fran Mihaljević in
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confirmed its first case. A 26-year-old man who had stayed in
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Index

Health care in Croatia
Croatia
universal health care
Croatian Health Insurance Fund

Life expectancy at birth
73 years for men and 79 years for women
infant mortality rate
live births
Counties of Croatia
Euro health consumer index
COVID-19 pandemic in Croatia
Croatia
Milan
Italy
Zagreb, Croatia
Croatian Public Health Institute
social distancing
vaccination campaigns
Ministry of Health (Croatia)
List of hospitals in Croatia
2020 coronavirus outbreak in Croatia
"Socijalna politika u kontekstu korjenite društvene transformacije postkomunističkih zemalja"
doi
10.3935/rsp.v10i2.124
ISSN
1330-2965
2013 Statistical Yearbook of the Republic of Croatia
"Ulaskom u EU Hrvatska će imati najveću potrošnju za zdravstvo"
the original

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