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6.4. Healthcare
Healthcare interventions are
considered to a lesser extent.
A more limited number of
countries select this area and, in general terms, when it is addressed, it is considered
from a more global approach
-i.e. within initiatives considering different areas or without
targeting explicitly Roma- rather than in specific lines of support.
The exception to this general trend is Slovakia, which within the
Human Resources OP
foresees a dedicated specific objective covering healthcare issues, notably in relation to
settlements and locations with marginalised Roma communities.
Within ESF Priority Axis ‘Integration of marginalised Roma communities’, the
Slovak
Human Resources OP
(ESF and ERDF) seeks to promote access to healthcare and public
health, including preventive care, healthcare education and increased hygiene standards of
housing. It foresees support for:
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A systematic provision of services and assistance through the programme of community
workers in the area of healthcare education in municipalities with the presence of
separated and segregated Marginalised Roma Communities (MRC).
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Programmes of healthcare education for inhabitants of segregated and separated Roma
settlements and locations. They focus on areas such as personal hygiene and care for
own health, education to parenthood, protection of sexual and reproduction health, care
for children, prevention of contagious diseases, manipulation with food, protection of
environment, prevention of injuries and accidents, etc.
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Programmes to ensure minimum hygienic standards in communities with presence of
MRC.
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Programmes to achieve a higher standard of hygiene in marginalised Roma settlements and
a systematic reduction of the number of illegal dwellings characterised by extremely low
levels of hygiene standards, also by the provision of technical assistance to municipalities
with the presence of MRC aimed at the settlement of title to land.
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A monitoring system to evaluate the efficiency of instruments of policies and their impact
on MRC.
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Actions in the area of healthcare are
funded by the European Social Fund,
mainly in
the context of TO 9,
combined in some cases with ERDF interventions,
to develop
health infrastructures.
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Most actions are aimed at
improving the access to healthcare services and covering
the basic health needs
(e.g. provision of individual counselling services and social
healthcare intermediary services, community workers in the area of healthcare,
hygienic services...).