Costa Rica News News Costa Rica » Health: Primary Health Care That Works: The Costa Rican Experience
Long considered a paragon among low- and middle-income countries in its provision of primary health care, Costa Rica reformed its primary health care system in 1994 using a model that, despite its ...
News Costa Rica » Health: Costa Rica Health Pass: What to Know Before You Go
Before the pandemic, Costa Rica received over 1.7 million tourists annually, bringing an estimated 1.7 billion dollars in revenue with them. With COVID-19 devastating the tourism industry it’s no ...
News Costa Rica » Health: Costa Rica’s public health care system facing financial strains
Costa Rica’s Social Security System, which manages the country’s socialized health care, is facing significant financial strains. Mario Devandas, the director and workers’ representative before the ...
News Costa Rica » Health: Costa Rica Will No Longer Require Completed Health Pass as of April 1
Beginning April 1, Costa Rica will no longer require travelers to complete an online Health Pass when visiting the destination. Additionally, unvaccinated travelers will no longer be required to ...
News Costa Rica » Health: Health Fair in Costa Rica gives refugees much needed medical care
SAN JOSÉ, Costa Rica, March 6 (UNHCR) - Since the early hours of the morning, the old Pacific train station in the heart of the Costa Rican capital has been a makeshift medical centre. Mobile clinics ...
News Costa Rica » Health: Building a Resilient Health System: Costa Rica’s 80 Year Experiment
Katharine Bliss: This is Pandemic Planet, the podcast where we talk about the urgent health security threats facing the world, the geopolitical and societal challenges they present and how the United ...
News Costa Rica » Health: Costa Rica doesn’t care how good your private health insurance is — you’re paying into the public system too
Show up to Costa Rica with a five-star international health policy, and here’s the twist: none of that gets you out of anything. Every Pensionado, Rentista, and Investor resident still has to enroll ...
News Costa Rica » Health: A recent Costa Rica health program offers publicly-funded hormone therapy for transgender people
Costa Rica recently created a program to offer hormone replacement therapy for transgender people for free through its national universal health care system. Since the program started in fall of 2017 ...
News Costa Rica » Health: CDC Adds Costa Rica Health Alert for Mosquito-Born Illness
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued a Level 2 precautionary warning for travelers heading to Costa Rica after an outbreak of chikungunya, a mosquito-borne illness. The ...
News Costa Rica » Health: Costa Rica’s public health system hit by Hive ransomware following Conti attacks
Costa Rica’s public health service, known as the Costa Rican Social Security Fund (CCSS), has been forced to take its systems offline after being hit by Hive ransomware. In a statement on Twitter, the ...