ARMENIAN OFFICIALS LOOKING AT ESTONIA’S HEALTH CARE SYSTEM

Baltic News Service
October 23, 2006 Monday 3:07 PM EET

Health officials and experts from Armenia are about to get familiar
over the next two weeks with the reforms carried out in the Estonian
health care system, first and foremost the with introduction of the
system of family doctors.

The training program for the Armenians who will be in Estonia from
Oct. 23 to Nov. 4 is arranged by the Praxis center for political
studies and it will include presentations of Estonia’s health care
policy, legislation and structure of the health care system, comparing
the periods before and after 1998, along with the health insurance
system and the promotion of the skills of medical workers.

The presentations will be made by representatives from the Social
Affairs Ministry, the National Health Insurance Fund, Tartu University,
Jarva County Government, the Social Affairs and Health Care Board
of Tallinn, the Estonian family doctors association and the patients
association, spokespeople for Praxis said.

The Armenians also will look at family practices in Tartu and the
Jarva County.