Тютюнът остава водеща причина за предотвратими смъртни случаи, както и за години живот с влошено здраве и загубени години поради преждевревенна смърт (DALY), в световен мащаб. Въпреки че в глобален мащаб нивата на употреба на тютюневи изделия намаляват, между държавите в ЕС има съществени разлики. През 2019 г. процентът на …
More »Patient access to antirheumatic medicinal products
|Read the full text of the analysis at this link| The analysis examines the challenges of access to medicines for the treatment of rheumatic diseases and the associated socio-economic consequences in Bulgaria. Based on data on the number of health insured persons, the costs of outpatient and clinical procedures, as well as the number of lost working days, we highlight …
More »Inflation and healthcare prices
Over the past few years, Bulgaria has seen a trend towards increasing prices for clinical pathways. In 2022, for example, prices increased twice - initially by 25% in April, followed by another increase of 8% for all clinical pathways in September. Especially in relation to cardiology and pulmonology, prices …
More »Season 2, Episode 1 - Health, Food and Motivation with Lazar Radkov
This episode on YouTube In this episode: - Why do we overeat during the holidays? - How to eat chocolate and lose weight? - Who would win in a fight - Rumen Radev or Boyko Borisov? - Lazar Radkov answers our donors' questions Links: Live to Lift 30 for 30 Caps for …
More »Cheaper drugs? Why not?!
As we have already understood, the budget of the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) grows annually and unjustifiably. On the other hand, mortality is increasing, while diseases are showing a constant trend. Theft through referrals has been a known fact for years and is easily noticeable in regional statistics. Since we have begun to dismantle the healthcare system, we must …
More »Theft with medical referrals 101
The article talks about a real Bulgarian municipality and the incident is based on real and public data. We will call it “municipality X”, due to the fact that neither the name of the municipality nor the medical team working on its territory should be discredited. The article will present the state of …
More »(Im)Possible reforms in the NHIF
The state in which the healthcare system was left by Dr. Petar Moskov is bordering on deplorable. The National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) again ran a deficit of 50 million leva at the end of 2016, and by now it has grown to 72 million leva. The fingerprint system turned out to be …
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