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USEFUL LINKS IN FRANCE: ADMINISTRATION
Ministère chargé la Santé
Diagram of the ministry’s organization,
National Health Accounts and Social Security Accounts, the hospital
system’s budget, STATISS: socio-health indicators by region and
département - geographical subdivision of a region -
(demographics, causes of death, medical facilities and equipment,
hospitalization, provisions for the elderly, child health policy,
social security beneficiaries), presentation of surveys and
publications by the Department of Research, Studies, Evaluation and
Statistics of the Ministry in charge of Health (Drees,
Direction de la recherche des études de
l’évaluation et des statistiques, Ministère
de la santé et des Sports). Complete texts: "Health status of the
Population in France" ("L'état de santé de la population en France").
The official weekly bulletin (BOH, Bulletin officiel hebdomadaire
entitled "Solidarité-santé" or "Solidarity –
Health") is now online. It contains all texts published in the Journal
Officiel: laws, orders, decrees and decisions, as well as unpublished
documents (memos, instructions...). The BOH’s contents mainly
concern social policy, health, national health insurance, information
on populations, immigration, repatriation, and urban policy.
Ministère chargé du travail
Information about the ministry, updates,
projects by subject, publications and statistical studies, key figures
on labor and employment.
GENERAL ADMINISTRATIONS
The Centre d’analyse stratégique is an organisation working directly under the
direction of the Prime Minister and its objective is to assist the government in
defining and implementing its economic, social, environmental and cultural
policies.
The site presents its work programme and all the publications are available for free.
Portail de l’administration française "Service-public.fr"
The site contains:
- two directories with listings of the
French administration’s public-service departments and the
corresponding national, foreign, and international websites,
- the heading "Comment faire si..." (What do I do if..),. This guide to
administrative procedures for citizens is an inter-ministerial system
managed by the Documentation française (official public
publisher) and which is then validated by the concerned ministries. The
user has access to 2,400 files containing Legifrance publications
(legislative texts) and Cerfa forms (all government forms).
- directions for procuring legislative texts (Legifrance) and official government reports (La Documentation française),
- online forms, notably tax forms,
- a listing of job offers within the civil service,
- a question-and-answer section.
Assemblée nationale
Updates, parliamentary calendar, session agendas, minutes, legislation approved...
Conseil constitutionnel
This council reviews all legislation to ensure its constitutionality.
The Constitution of 1958 (The Fifth Republic), rulings handed down by the council, missions, legislative procedure.
Conseil Economique et Social
The site contains full-text versions of the
Conseil's rulings as well as information on its
mission, history, on administrative and appellate courts,
administrative courts worldwide, and procedural explanations for
individuals about the justice system regulating the French
administration.
Cour des comptes
In addition to information on the courts and
their regional counterparts, the user has access to all official
reports and bulletins.
CMU Fund
Fonds Cmu
The Cmu fund offers a public complementary
insurance on a voluntary basis to lower socioeconomic groups. Its site
contains information on how to obtain the CMU. It also publishes on
line its reports and statistics informations.
IGAS is the inter-ministerial audit and evaluation office for
social and health, employment and labour policies. Around forty reports
are published on-line each year - 341 reports published on-line since
2003.
This archived site contains information on
Internet-related governmental activity from 1996 to 2008 in the departments of education,
civil service, culture, and industry, as well as on the protection and
development of NTIs (new information technologies) Under each heading
may be found official documents concerning the sector. A review of the
weekly multimedia press, a calendar, and a list of forums provides
information on recent developments in NTIs. Included, for example, are
recent French reports on computer science.
Summary of general texts from the daily and weekly issues of the Journal officiel.
OSNIR (Observatoire national interministériel de la Sécurité routière)
Sénat
Updates: pending legislation, short bulletins on
sessions from the previous week, press communiqués, complete
copies of works in progress at the Senate...
HEALTH ADMINISTRATION
This portal is designed to enhance the agencies sites
public health information. It covers both safety and health educational
documentary informations.
Afssaps (Agence française de
Sécurité sanitaire des Produits de santé, ex
agence du médicament)
This site contains several pages on the
agency’s organization, role, and mission (health law enforcement,
ensuring proper use of drugs, development of industrial activity and
research). In addition, there is information on its work plan. Available also are updates and current developments (health
alerts, withdrawal of suspect or contaminated batches of drugs from the
market, pharmaceutical monitoring, press communiqués, letters to
prescribers). The law of July 1, 1998 concerning the monitoring of
health products for human consumption is presented. The site also
furnishes the following practical information:
- forms: declaration forms for those
experiencing undesirable side-effects, forms for manufacturers who wish
to obtain marketing authorizations, certificates for publications of
proper usage directions, World Health Organization certificates...
- Agency publications: technical files,
official medical practice guidelines (RMO, références
médicales opposables), generic drug lists, reports by the
Prescription Monitoring Bureau (Observatoire de la Prescription):
antibiotics reports, anti-depressants.
>ANSES (Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire, de l'alimentation, de l'environnement et du travail)
The new health establishment, was created in july 2010. It
has incorporated the missions, resources and personnel of the previous
French Food Safety Agency (AFSSA) and the previous French Agency for
Environmental and Occupational Health Safety (AFSSET).
EFS (Etablissement Français du Sang)
HAs (Haute
Autorité de santé) activities are diverse. They range
from assessment of drugs, medical devices, and procedures to
publication of guidelines to accreditation of healthcare organisations
and certification of doctors. The site provides HAS publications in
english.
InVS (Institut de Veille Sanitaire)
The French Institute for Public Health
Surveillance, a governmental institution reporting to the Ministry of
Health, is responsible for surveillance and alert in all domains of
public health. Created by Law 98--535 dated 1 July 1998, to reinforce
health surveillance and the safety of products intended for human use,
its mandates were enlarged by the Public Health Policy Act of 2004, in
order to meet the new challenges highlighted by recent health and
emerging risks.
In addition to presenting the agency's missions, the site provides
- a list of illnesses which must be reported to authorities
- the weekly epidemiological bulletin (Bulletin épidémiologique hebdomadaire, BEH),
- recommendation guides, dossiers by
subject: epidemiology of illnesses which must be reported, air
pollution, lead poisoning, the monitoring network on meningitis
(EPIBAC)...
- European programs in which InVS are involved,
- Several epidemiological databases
DRASS - Regional Health and Social
Affairs services of the Ministry of Health, DDASS -
Département-level branches of the Ministry of Health
The list figures in the Ministry of
Health’s site under the heading "adresses et numéros
utiles" (practical information).
Since the creation of new "Regional Health Authorities" (Agences Régionales de
Santé,
ARS) in 2010, the DRASS were absorbed into the Regional health
Agencies, while the DDASS were combined with other local social
authorities.
ARH - Regional Hospital Agencies
Since the creation of new "Regional Health Authorities" (Agences Régionales de
Santé, ARS) in 2010, the ARH were replaced by Regional Health Agencies. Consequently, this website is no longer being updating.
ARS - Regional Health Agencies
List of ARS and how to contact them
ORS - Regional Health Observatories
FNORS (Fédération Nationale des Observatoires Régionaux de la Santé)
This site includes numerical data from all 26 ORSs (850 health indicators)
The database is organized into seven subject categories pertaining to
health and social services: population and living conditions, health
status, pathologies, health behaviour, health and the environment.,
health care resources and preventive health care.
The 850 indicators are applied to continental France’s 22 regions
as well as its four overseas départements (local administrative
levels). They are broken down by sex, age, and other characteristics
and are often available for a span of several years.
Social Security Organizations
ACOSS (Agence Centrale des Organismes de la Sécurité Sociale)
CADES has been assigned the task of amortizing France's social
security debt by means of a financially balanced debt amortization fund
that relies notably on fiscal resources. It is an institution which
combines the guarantees provided by government-backed issuers (e.g. it
cannot fail) with the organisation and transparency associated with
traditional financial institutions.
Cnav (Caisse Nationale d’Assurance Vieillesse)
Practical information on retirement pensions (calculations, entitlements...), statistics.
French governmental agency which registers unemployed people, helps
them find jobs and provides them with financial aids. The agency was
created in 2009, resulting from the merger between the ANPE and the UNEDIC.
The site is comprised of several entities. The
Unipublics section is for job seekers, employers, and ex-patriots. It
contains files with practical information (application procedures,
entitlements...), and information on social security coverage for the
unemployed in France and in the EU, and provides site addresses for
applicants.
The Unijuridis section is designed for legal professionals and justice
officials. It contains texts on the indemnity systems, the financing of
the provision of unemployment insurance, as well as on relevant
institutions and their missions.
An another site : pole-emploi.org provides statisticians and concerned
professionals with labor and unemployment statistics.
Social security's portal (Portail de la Sécurité sociale)
This site was set up to direct the reader to the various social security websites. It contains:
- presentation of social security and its branches,
- provision of information on the
history of social security in France, health reforms, main figures,
social security institutions, laws...,
- directory of all social security organizations at the national level.
UCANSS (Union des caisses Nationales de Sécurité Sociale)
Information about the UCANSS presented in four sections:
- General information on the
UCANSS: introduction to the UCANSS and explanation of its mission.
Observatory of trends in employment and professional qualifications
(featuring an online directory of professions, prospective analyses
trade by trade, developments in professional qualifications and
requisites, job re-assignment and training programs...).
- Services: employment offers, detailed
statistics on social security personnel, texts and publications
(catalogue of publications, branch agreements between social security
and its personnel, social security by-laws and regulations, listing of
illnesses and disorders associated with specific professions, the
latest changes of the list of medical devices reimbursed by Social
security, a listing which also includes their prices, reimbursement
rates (TIPS, Tarif interministériel des prestations sanitaires),
and a list of the various social security branches.
- Activities: the UCANSS provides
consultancy, training programs, and is a source of information
(institutional network for professional training programs and offers by
training organizations).
- Key figures
General health insurance fund
Cnamts (Caisse Nationale d’Assurance Maladie des Travailleurs Salariés)
Cnamts - Risques professionnels
This site is designed for health professionals.
Studies by social security physicians concerning hospital and
ambulatory care can be consulted online or downloaded. Also available
are the latest statistics from the Medical Department: morbidity for
long-term illnesses (ALD 30) and diseases linked to certain professions.
Other Social Insurance Funds
CARMF (Caisse autonome de retraite des médecins français)
Information on physicians’ retirement pensions. Access to other sites is also provided.
FNMF (Fédération Nationale de la Mutualité française)
The FNMF's site contains: an introduction to the
Mutualité française (key figures, specificities, values,
organization, functioning, the federation, the Mutuality's history), a
presentation of its members' activities (reimbursements, forecasts and
solvency guarantees, the mutual's medico-social establishments), a
directory of the mutual funds under the aegis of the
Mutualité française, a non-exhaustive glossary of
frequently used terms within the Mutualité and by its
information services, mutual fund publications (press
communiqués, published works, and trade press, key results of a
regular survey on health and health insurance (baromètre
protection sociale/santé) commissioned and conducted by the
mutualité française (a federation of mutual insurance
companies specialized in the provision of health insurance)
l’Express (a magazine) and IFOP (an institution which conducts
survey), dossiers covering news and current developments, 32 health
advice bulletins, and a special dossier for the general public on
prescription medicines.
MGEN (Mutuelle Générale de l’Education Nationale)
MSA (Mutualité Sociale Agricole)
Includes information on the farmers' health insurance fund.
OTHER
ATIH (Agence Technique de l'Information sur l'Hospitalisation)
ATIH includes first and
foremost, the hospitalisation and healthcare administration’s PMSI (medical
information system programme) missions, the PMSI’s information processing centre
(CTIP) and the pole of expertise and national healthcare nomenclature
referencing (PERNNS).
Pays de la Loire health administration: Regional
Branch of the Ministry of Health (DRASS, Direction Régionale de
l’action sanitaire et sociale), département-level branches
of the Ministry of Health (DDASS, Direction départementale de
l’action sanitaire et sociale, the "département" is a
geographical subdivision of a region), Regional Hospital Agency (ARH,
Agence régionale de l’hospitalisation), Regional Health
Observatory (ORS, Observatoire régional de la santé),
Regional Council.
In addition to information, mission statements, and addresses for
various actors in the Pays de la Loire’s health system, this site
provides health data from the region (ORS files, epidemiology of
cancers and HIV) and information on various regional health programs:
regional health conferences and programs, breast cancer detection
programs, maps showing health care establishments, five-year regional
plan for the organization of care provision (SROS, Schéma
régional d’organisation sanitaire), projects for local
hospital systems' reorganization.
The site contains the following information on
the armed forces health services: missions, organization (hospitals,
medical schools, research centers, supply centers), health careers in
the armed forces (statistics and a breakdown of professions), means
(research, training, hospitals, and supply) some background history
(results of entry/qualifying exams and extracts from the armed forces
health service periodical "Actu Santé").
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