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Health Care, Disease Control, Crime and Safety in Slovenia

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The health care system in Slovenia is run by the National Health Insurance Institute, which is created by law to provide the citizens with equal and compulsory access to state-funded health care manned by well-trained medical staff in the country’s various health centers, hospitals and clinics. The state fund covers various medical services such as treatment by specialists, hospitalization, pregnancy, childbirth, and rehabilitation after treatment. The Institute is backed up by the Ministry of Health, and as required to provide compulsory health insurance to all qualified citizens, and make efficient collections and allocations of funds intended for health care.

The Institute has 10 regional units and 45 branches all over the country, providing insurance-covered citizens with health insurance cards which are required to be presented each time they consult a doctor or seek hospitalization.

Under the health care system of the country, the law also provides for the registration of employees by their employers with the Institute, contribution to the fund by both employers and employees, payment of contributions by self-employed citizens and pensioners, by employed family members on behalf of covered dependent and non-employed family members, and acquisition by jobless immigrants of proof of private health insurance coverage for them to obtain residence permits.

The country has 36 health centers providing outpatient care and medical services such as general practice, maternity care, childbirth care, dental care, emergency medical aid, laboratory, radiology and diagnostic services. Emergency care is provided in all major state hospitals where serious illness is prioritized over minor cases. Private medical clinics are maintained by doctors and specialists but only a few people avail of their prohibitive costs of services.