Galvanised by encouraging policy-driven results, as well as by the 2011 constitutional amendments that enshrined access to health care as a basic right of all citizens, Morocco is securing the gains it has made over the past two decades. The government is hoping a regional approach to health care management will help improve governance and reduce...
In a bid to reduce the gap between health care access in urban districts and rural areas, as well as increase support for low-income citizens, the government has shifted rolling out its new health insurance programme into full gear. The new medical assistance regime (Regime d'Assistance Medicale, RAMED) was officially inaugurated by King Mohamed VI...
What are the main challenges facing the introduction of the medical assistance regime (Régime d’ Assistance Medicale, RAMED)?
Located in the westernmost region of North Africa, Morocco has an impressively diversified economy and in recent years has benefited from steady growth. The country has strong trade links with the EU and has a young population – with the median age of its roughly 32m people at 27.3 years – which in turn provides the country with a large supply of available and comparatively skilled labour.
Expenditure on health in Saudi Arabia is low by regional standards in per capita terms; however, it is high as a proportion of GDP and is rising, with the government having significantly boosted the health budget in 2011. Funds committed to the sector under the latest five-year plan have also risen. A number of major state-funded infrastructure...
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