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Healthcare In Costa Rica

admin — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 22:29:31 +0000

Statistics from the World Health Organization’s “The World Health Report 1995″ place Costa Rica third in life expectancy in the world, sandwiched neatly behind Japan and France and ahead of Great Britain and the United States; and with a per capita income about one tenth that of the other four. Certainly, some reasons for this can be found in the Costa Rican less-than-frenetic lifestyle, the healthy, fresh, non-preservative-laden foods of the country, the tropical climate–Costa Rica seems to be a healthy place to live. But if one looks simply at the life issues, so are many other places on the globe. Costa Rica is a healthy place to live because its government continues a long- time commitment to affordable access for each and every citizen to one of the finest health care systems in the world.

Costa Rica Private Medicine

admin — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:35:28 +0000

Even though each and every physician is committed to give part of his or her time to the governmental health care system, many provide private health care services in their own practices as well. Of the over 1,000 medical specialists in Costa Rica, fully one quarter are qualified on a world class level.

The Medical Infrastructure

admin — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:33:09 +0000

Most private and many public hospitals and clinics are equipped with current generation medical equipment, i.e. MRI, CAT, Ultrasound, Mammography, etc. Several clinics around the central valley are devoted solely to diagnostics. Highly sophisticated laboratories operate in most hospitals and in some private clinics and treatment centers.

Costa Rican Physicians

admin — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:27:18 +0000

Most Costa Rican doctors and dentists receive their basic medical training in Costa Rica. From here, they travel far and wide seeking specialized training from the finest teaching hospitals in the world, often becoming certified in their specialties in the countries where they receive their advanced training. It is not uncommon to find a Costa Rican doctor or dentist speaking several languages, all learned while pursuing advanced degrees in foreign countries. Perhaps it is the CCSS (Costa Rican public health system) work or the varied travel and study that does it, but the caring expressed by the doctors and dentists throughout the country is noteworthy in its extreme.