33 result(s) for poor in Health & Wellness
Average Hungarian Spends 143 Euros On Health Annually
- 6 May 2016 9:00 AM
- health & wellness
The average Hungarian household spent 4.9 percent of their income, or 44,771 forints (EUR 143) per person, on health services and drugs in 2014, the Central Statistical Office said in its annual report. The report, however, pointed to huge differences tied to income levels and said that while people in the richest 20 percent of society spent 170 percent of the average, the poorest spent a mere 32 ...
Research: What Do The Hungarian Internet Users Think About Autists?
- 14 Apr 2016 9:00 AM
- health & wellness
One in 100 persons is autistic in Hungary. You have probably met autists on the bus, in the street, or at school; you just did not recognise why they were so strange. What occurs to you when you hear the word “autism”? Are all autists geniuses in some areas, like the character played by Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man? Would you welcome them around you? One thing is certain: knowledge makes you more ...
Hungary Health Care Waiting Times Among Shortest In Europe
- 8 Jan 2016 8:00 AM
- health & wellness
Waiting times in Hungary’s healthcare system are among the shortest in Europe, state secretary for health Zoltán Ónodi-Szűcs insisted. Hungarian health care “hardly has waiting lists anymore”. He noted, however, that there is a specific set of surgery types for which the use of waiting lists is mandatory, even if a patient only has to wait one day for surgery.
Hungarian Health Care Providers To Resume Protests
- 4 Jun 2015 9:00 AM
- health & wellness
The draft 2016 budget does not allocate sufficient funds to Hungary’s public health care system to ensure that patients are properly cared for, according to the Action Alliance for Truth about Health Matters, which has decided to organize additional actions to call further attention to the problems caused by chronic underfunding.
WHO: World No Tobacco Day, Hungary, 31 May
- 29 May 2015 9:01 AM
- health & wellness
Eliminating the illicit trade in tobacco would generate an annual tax windfall of US$ 31 billion for governments, improve public health, help cut crime and curb an important revenue source for the tobacco industry. Those are the key themes of World No Tobacco Day on May 31 when the World Health Organization will urge Member States to sign the Protocol to Eliminate the Illicit Trade in Tobacco ...
Hungarian Health Care Workers Earn 1/10th That Of Their Western Counterparts
- 9 Mar 2015 8:00 AM
- health & wellness
The people need to understand that we are not talking about how much residents or expert doctors make, but whether they will be treated when they go to hospital, says Tamás Dénes, President of the Hungarian Residents Association. Doctors and expert health workers are moving abroad because of low wages and poor working conditions.
Hungary’s Healthcare “On The Brink Of Disaster”
- 17 Jan 2015 8:00 AM
- health & wellness
According to general practitioner Zoltán Komáromi, Hungary’s healthcare system is on the brink of disaster. Low salaries and poor working conditions are causing doctors to either go abroad or work at private hospitals. More and more patients are choosing private health care over public for procedures that are important revenue generators for the public health care system.
'Mustaches For November', By FirstMed Budapest
- 10 Nov 2014 8:00 AM
- health & wellness
If you see more men growing mustaches – funny or ordinary – from now till around the end of the month, it’s probably not a weird coincidence, but another “raise-awareness” movement. We hardly have put our pink breast cancer ribbons away till next October, when the next unifying activity emerges: all men grow mustaches.
Government To Overhaul Public Health Care In Hungary
- 17 Oct 2014 9:00 AM
- health & wellness
“We can only guess what the government is preparing to do,” Péter Balaton, general secretary of the Association of Hungarian Hospitals and Clinics, told ATV’s Egon Ronai Tuesday morning. “We hope it will not be what happened in earlier years when they chose an industry expert as state secretary, Miklos Szocska, whose activities and cooperation with the industry was overwritten by politics. The ...
Average Hungarian Spends 143 Euros On Health Annually
- 6 May 2016 9:00 AM
- health & wellness
The average Hungarian household spent 4.9 percent of their income, or 44,771 forints (EUR 143) per person, on health services and drugs in 2014, the Central Statistical Office said in its annual report. The report, however, pointed to huge differences tied to income levels and said that while people in the richest 20 percent of society spent 170 percent of the average, the poorest spent a mere 32 ...
Research: What Do The Hungarian Internet Users Think About Autists?
- 14 Apr 2016 9:00 AM
- health & wellness
One in 100 persons is autistic in Hungary. You have probably met autists on the bus, in the street, or at school; you just did not recognise why they were so strange. What occurs to you when you hear the word “autism”? Are all autists geniuses in some areas, like the character played by Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man? Would you welcome them around you? One thing is certain: knowledge makes you more ...
Hungary Health Care Waiting Times Among Shortest In Europe
- 8 Jan 2016 8:00 AM
- health & wellness
Waiting times in Hungary’s healthcare system are among the shortest in Europe, state secretary for health Zoltán Ónodi-Szűcs insisted. Hungarian health care “hardly has waiting lists anymore”. He noted, however, that there is a specific set of surgery types for which the use of waiting lists is mandatory, even if a patient only has to wait one day for surgery.
Hungarian Health Care Providers To Resume Protests
- 4 Jun 2015 9:00 AM
- health & wellness
The draft 2016 budget does not allocate sufficient funds to Hungary’s public health care system to ensure that patients are properly cared for, according to the Action Alliance for Truth about Health Matters, which has decided to organize additional actions to call further attention to the problems caused by chronic underfunding.
WHO: World No Tobacco Day, Hungary, 31 May
- 29 May 2015 9:01 AM
- health & wellness
Eliminating the illicit trade in tobacco would generate an annual tax windfall of US$ 31 billion for governments, improve public health, help cut crime and curb an important revenue source for the tobacco industry. Those are the key themes of World No Tobacco Day on May 31 when the World Health Organization will urge Member States to sign the Protocol to Eliminate the Illicit Trade in Tobacco ...
Hungarian Health Care Workers Earn 1/10th That Of Their Western Counterparts
- 9 Mar 2015 8:00 AM
- health & wellness
The people need to understand that we are not talking about how much residents or expert doctors make, but whether they will be treated when they go to hospital, says Tamás Dénes, President of the Hungarian Residents Association. Doctors and expert health workers are moving abroad because of low wages and poor working conditions.
Hungary’s Healthcare “On The Brink Of Disaster”
- 17 Jan 2015 8:00 AM
- health & wellness
According to general practitioner Zoltán Komáromi, Hungary’s healthcare system is on the brink of disaster. Low salaries and poor working conditions are causing doctors to either go abroad or work at private hospitals. More and more patients are choosing private health care over public for procedures that are important revenue generators for the public health care system.
'Mustaches For November', By FirstMed Budapest
- 10 Nov 2014 8:00 AM
- health & wellness
If you see more men growing mustaches – funny or ordinary – from now till around the end of the month, it’s probably not a weird coincidence, but another “raise-awareness” movement. We hardly have put our pink breast cancer ribbons away till next October, when the next unifying activity emerges: all men grow mustaches.
Government To Overhaul Public Health Care In Hungary
- 17 Oct 2014 9:00 AM
- health & wellness
“We can only guess what the government is preparing to do,” Péter Balaton, general secretary of the Association of Hungarian Hospitals and Clinics, told ATV’s Egon Ronai Tuesday morning. “We hope it will not be what happened in earlier years when they chose an industry expert as state secretary, Miklos Szocska, whose activities and cooperation with the industry was overwritten by politics. The ...