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The country of Luxembourg has highly developed health system, which is managed by the Ministry of Public Health. In the category of Luxembourg Health, public health facilities are available to the physicians and the treatment of the patients is carried out in private mode.
The hospitals that take care of the Luxembourg Health are controlled by the state or by the Roman Catholic Church. In the health system of Luxembourg there was about 780 physicians, 198 dentists, 307 pharmacists, and 124 midwives in the middle part of the 1990s.
The public health officials of Luxembourg have earned competent national operations against infectious diseases and child mortality has been reduced from 56.8 per 1,000 live births in the year 1948 to approximately 4.7 as of 2002.
Between the years 1991 to 1994 80 percent of the children were vaccinated against measles. The standard woman living through her childbearing years had 1.5 children. The average living expectancy was estimated at 77.5 years.
The smoking rate in Luxembourg was nearly equal for both men and women in the middle part of 1990s. During the years of 1986-88, the age-adjusted breast cancer mortality rate per 100,000 people was 25.6.
In Luxembourg health insurance is obligatory and the fundamental cover is usually provided by the national security system. The health care system works on the repayment basis in the country. Most of the people of Luxembourg take out additional insurance with one of the non-profit health insurance agencies or joint associations that is associated to the Ministry of Social Security.
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