Insured persons and children benefit from free annual preventive consultations, depending on their age.
Insured persons and children up to 18 years old benefit, from July 1, of free annual preventive consultations, the frequency of which varies according to age. They can also benefit from medical investigations free of charge and on the recommendation of doctors, with the aim of preventing possible illnesses or providing medical assistance to the insured from the early stages of a possible illness.
The medical package related to prevention and prophylaxis includes routine medical consultations, immunizations, screenings for cancer and other diseases, treatments for chronic diseases, as well as health education, writes rohealthreview.ro.
Preventive medical services to which children are entitled
The little ones benefit from the recommended periodic preventive consultations – pay attention, not to those caused by health problems or suspicions regarding the child’s condition! – assets, regarding nutrition, growth, development, as well as risks specific to their age or sex, their frequency being at discharge from the maternity ward and at 1 month – at the child’s home and, subsequently, at 2, 4, 6, 9, 12, 15 , 18, 24 and 36 months.
For children between the ages of 4 and 18, the frequency of recommended consultations drops to one per year.
Preventive paraclinical investigations in children include laboratory tests for anemia and rickets in children aged 2 to 5 years and screening for dysmetabolic syndrome and STDs in children aged 6 to 17 years.
Free preventive services for adults
Adults who do not show symptoms of any condition are recommended for evaluation consultations as follows:
people between the ages of 18 and 39 are recommended a preventive consultation every three years during which the family doctor evaluates exposure to risk factors; a maximum of two consultations are settled for each insured, in the year in which the individual risk assessment is carried out. Asymptomatic people aged between 18 and 39 years old detected at high risk are given preventive evaluation consultations annually and a maximum of two consultations are settled, annually people over 40 years old are recommended an annual evaluation, for which the family doctor assesses the exposure to risk factors; if the family doctor identifies a high degree of risk, a maximum of two consultations are settled annually. A novelty here is the introduction of risk charts for the early detection of the possibility of developing cardiovascular, cerebro-vascular, oncological diseases, diabetes, chronic kidney disease, as well as for the evaluation of mental and reproductive health. people over 60 are given, by the family doctor, preventive consultations for the early detection of chronic conditions. These include the assessment of the patient’s lifestyle behaviors in terms of health impact. Investigations also include those that allow the evaluation of mental health, the risk of dementia and depression, the fatal risk of cardiovascular, oncological, osteoporosis, urinary incontinence and in the event that the family doctor recommends performing paraclinical investigations and the patient is not insured, will have to pay the cost of the analyzes performed.
2023-09-04 07:19:50
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