Monaco has the third highest proportion of doctors for its population in Europe: 581 per 100,000 in 2015. Infant mortality rate: 1.7 deaths/1,000 live births (2024 estimate) Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 89.8 years(2024 estimate)
male: 86 years(2024 estimate)
female: 93.7 years (2024 estimate)

Healthcare

The Caisses Sociales de Monaco is the compulsory social insurance scheme in the principality which gives entitlement to the public healthcare system. Employers have to contribute 24% of their gross payroll for healthcare and employees 15% of their earnings. This entitles contributors and their families to reimbursement of between 80% and 100% of the cost of medical procedures, prescriptions, dentistry, rehabilitation, pregnancy and childbirth, and some hospitalizations. French and Italian citizens can use public health facilities if they have contributed to their home country's state health care scheme. The

Carte Vitale The Carte Vitale is the health insurance card of the national health care system in France. It was introduced in 1998 to allow a direct settlement with the medical arm of the social insurance system. The declaration of a primary health insurance ...

, which is issued on registration with the Caisses Sociales de Monaco, is used to record administrative, not clinical, information about patients. Patients must register with a doctor employed through the scheme. Total health expenditure in the country was only about 4% in 2014.

Hospitals

There are three public hospitals in Monaco: *

Princess Grace Hospital Centre The Princess Grace Hospital Centre (, CHPG), named after Grace Kelly, is the only public hospital in Monaco. History The hospital was opened in 1902 by Prince Albert I as the Monaco Hospital. A service of pediatrics was created in 1949. In 1958, ...

, founded in 1902, 631 beds, public *

Cardiothoracic Center of Monaco The Cardiovascular and Thoracic Centre of Monaco (CCM) is a small hospital in Monaco which specialises in cardiovascular and thoracic diseases. History Envisioned in 1978, the Cardiovascular and Thoracic Centre of Monaco opened in April 1987. W ...

, founded in 1987, small hospital, public *

Haemodialysis Hemodialysis, also spelled haemodialysis, or simply ''"'dialysis'"'', is a process of filtering the blood of a person whose kidneys are not working normally. This type of dialysis achieves the extracorporeal removal of waste products such as c ...

Centre, public *Rainier III Centre for Clinical Gerontology *Monaco Institute for Sports Medicine and Surgery

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