Bulgarian government will offer financial incentives for citizens to undergo mandatory annual preventive medical examinations. This one is aimed at improving the general state of health of the population. This is reported by Euractiv, according to UNN.
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Tax authorities will refund one annual health insurance contribution to taxpayers health insurance premium, or rather, the last one for the year, if they have undergone an annual medical checkup.
This measure aims to motivate Bulgarians, who usually avoid preventive examinations, to undergo who usually avoid preventive examinations, to get tested at least once a year, which will ultimately improve their health. ultimately improving the health of the population.
The current team at the Ministry of Health has made prevention is the current team of the Ministry of Health as its priority. The main incentive is to protect and care for their own health and the health of their loved ones. We want to convey this message to the society. We will use various information campaigns dedicated to the importance of prevention
Every insured person in Bulgaria has the right to undergo a preventive examination once a year. to undergo a preventive examination once a year. It is carried out by general practitioners.
The Ministry has high hopes that the project will be will be successful. Although free of charge, preventive examinations are extremely unpopular among the the population.
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According to official statistics for 2022, only 41% of all insured persons over the age of 18 have undergone mandatory preventive examinations with their personal doctor. By September of this year, only only 22% of insured citizens had undergone mandatory check-ups. This means that more than half of Bulgarians did not did not take advantage of this opportunity.
General practitioners call this an "alarming trend" because prevention can help detect many diseases at an early stage, making treatment more accessible and cheaper.