To achieve this Montenegro will specifically focus on the following activities. Result expected by 2010
There is equal access for all children to the health care system and benefits through adequate operations of the health services and health insurance, with special attention to vulnerable categories of children.
L E G A L R E G U L AT I O N S
Convention on the Rights of the Child – Article 24 states that the child has the right to enjoy the highest attainable standards of health and facilities for the treatment and rehabilitation including review of existing policies to abolish prejudices
The Law on Health and Health Insurance (Official Gazette of the Republic of Montenegro, no: 39/90, 21/91, 30/92, 58/92,6/94,27/94, 16/95, 20/95 and 23/96)
“People think that children like us can not be healthy, that we will stay like this forever that we are like things” secondary school aged child with special needs
The system of health care is organised according to the Bismarck model (mandatory health insurance, universal coverage, principle of solidarity)
Health care is provided through the Republican Fund for Health Insurance, with children under 15 automatically covered and those under 27 automatically covered if in school. Children. If not employed nor students children may be covered under their guardians’ insurance.
Basic health protection is provided at the municipal level and includes 18 health centres and 3 health stations (Government of the Republic of Montenegro 2003b, p. 52).
Plan of Action for Children
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