INCEPTION REPORT

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INCEPTION REPORT

• PHARE CONTRACT BG-01-03-0013
• Educational and Medical Integration of Vulnerable
  Minority Groups with the Special Focus on Roma
  Component 3 Health at Bulgaria Identification
  number Europeaid/121330/D/SV/
• CEEN Economic Project and Policy Consulting GmbH
  (CEEN)
• in consortium with
• Centre for Social Practices (CSP) and
• European Consultants Organisation (ECO)

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Project Aims

• Support for improvement of the equal access to
  health care services
• Support for qualification of medical staff to
  work in multicultural environment
• Support to preventive health care services
• Support for health promotion and education for
  vulnerable minorities groups.

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Projects Results

• A curriculum for medical specialties at 5
  universities and 14 nursing colleges
• A training programme for 30 university lecturers
  and 28 nursing colleges lecturers
• A curriculum for the college education of
  mediators between the health care system and the
  Roma community developed
• Maximum 50 mediators educated in the medical
  colleges
• Preventive health care services programme
  implemented in 5 pilot regions
• Health promotion and education programme.

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Objectives of the Inception Phase

• Confront the Project Proposal with the state of
  the art
• Introduce the projects team to stakeholders
• Harmonize the activity with the most recent
  international and national documents
• Identify points for motivating participation and
  sustaining the activity
• Coordinating with other projects and donor
  activities.

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Crucial documents

• Law on Health
• Action Plan to the Health Strategy concerning
  People in Inequitable Position, belonging to
  Ethnic Minorities for years 2005-07 (developed by
  the Ministry of Health, and approved by the
  Council of Ministers)
• European Charter of Patients' Rights.

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