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Espriu Foundation serves more than two million people
The Espriu Foundation served a total of 2,298,655 people in 2016, compared with 2,246,966 the previous year, representing an increase of more than 50,000 users. In this regard, the health...
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Almost one hundred million households across the world access the health...
Health cooperatives are business structures that facilitate access to healthcare to nearly 100 million households across the world. They were recognised as such by the members of the B20 health group,...
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The ILO acknowledges that health cooperatives offer better wages and reduce...
Health cooperatives offer opportunities for decent work in the healthcare sector, according to the study carried out by the International Labour Organization (OIT), published under the title of...
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Around 80% of patients with atrial fibrillation are successfully treated at...
Around 80% of patients with atrial fibrillation are successfully treated at Moncloa University Hospital, according to the statement made by the medical director of the hospital and director of the...
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Childhood food allergies and intolerances do not have to imply an unbalanced...
The director of the Espriu Foundation, Carlos Zarco, has stated that even though childhood food allergies and intolerances are becoming increasingly more common, they do not have to imply an unbalanced...
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The director of the Espriu Foundation, Carlos Zarco, a candidate for the...
The director of the Espriu Foundation, Carlos Zarco, is one of the candidates for the presidency of the International Health Co-operative Organisation (IHCO). Doctor Zarco is currently First...
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The Espriu Foundation welcomes the Private Healthcare Advocacy Pact and...
The Espriu Foundation has welcomed the Private Healthcare Advocacy Pact signed by the Spanish Confederation of Business Organisations (CEOE), together with other healthcare institutions, with the aim...
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The director of the Espriu Foundation, Carlos Zarco, a candidate for the...
The director of the Espriu Foundation, Carlos Zarco, is one of the candidates for the presidency of the International Health Co-operative Organisation (IHCO). Doctor Zarco is currently First...
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The Director of the Espriu Foundation, Carlos Zarco, newly-elected President...
The Director of the Espriu Foundation, Carlos Zarco, has been appointed President of the International Health Co-operative Organisation (IHCO) during the General Assembly held in Kuala Lumpur. All...
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Morbid obesity shortens a person’s life expectancy by 10 years
Patients with morbid obesity have 10 years less of life expectancy, and it is also considered a serious disease linked to high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, cholesterol, sleep apnoea, joint...
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The Espriu Foundation maintains its position as the world’s fourth largest...
The Espriu Foundation maintains its position as the world’s fourth largest health co-operative, according to the 2017 World Co-operative Monitor, the only report to gather annual quantitative data on...
View ArticleThe International Co-operative Alliance posthumously awards Dr José Carlos...
Dr José Carlos Guisado has been posthumously honoured with the ‘Rochdale Pioneers Award’, the highest honour in the co-operative movement that the International Co-operative Alliance (ICA) bestows,...
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The entities comprising the Espriu Foundation improve quality and...
The four health co-operatives that the Espriu Foundation comprises (Autogestió Sanitària, Lavinia, Scias and Asisa) free up resources and encourage savings for the public healthcare system. These...
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The Espriu Foundation highlights cooperatives’ key role in the recovery of...
As a member of the organisation Cooperatives Europe, the Espriu Foundation backs the document that this entity has drawn up in an attempt to highlight cooperatives’ key role in the future of Europe and...
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Cooperativism makes healthcare more accessible through new technologies
The cooperatives that comprise the Espriu Foundation (Assistencia Sanitaria, SCIAS, Lavinia and Asisa) have developed a series of digital tools aimed at offering their users more comprehensive and...
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The Espriu Foundation advocates at the WHO the contribution by cooperatives...
The Director of the Espriu Foundation and President of the International Health Co-operative Organisation (IHCO), Carlos Zarco, has advocated the contribution by health cooperatives to world health as...
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The Espriu Foundation, one of the leading business groups in the social...
The Espriu Foundation is among the eight most important business groups of the Spanish social economy, according to the ‘Relevant Enterprises of the Social Economy’ report created by the Spanish...
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The Hospital of Barcelona brings together over 1,100 surgeons in its Surgery...
The Surgery Unit is a fundamental part of the entire hospital centre. Since the centre’s opening on Avinguda Diagonal in Barcelona, this service has seen intense activity. Over the course of 2016,...
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The Espriu Foundation encourages cooperative entrepreneurship to tackle youth...
The Espriu Foundation forms part of the international project Ecoope, co-financed by the European Union, which aims to introduce innovative and educational actions aimed at European students in...
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Within this framework, European students maintain that the cooperative...
Liliana Raquel Lemos Da Silva (Portugal), Elisa Schweigkofler (Italy) and Estanislao Gamero Salas (Spain) are three of the young people taking part in the international project Ecoope, co-financed by...
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