Family health and vulnerable situations
Helps you set up healthcare for children, pregnancy and family members.
Set up healthcare for family members at particular life stages: children and teens, vaccinations, pregnancy and birth, reproductive health and preventive care.
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Setting up family healthcare
You will know who to register and see first, what is free, how your region changes things and how Spanish family healthcare works in practice.
Setting up healthcare for your whole family, step by step · Public care or private cover for each family stage · What family healthcare is free in Spain and what you pay for
More in family health and vulnerable situations
6 more topics in this section, about 5.1 hours of reading in all.
Children's and teen healthcare
You will know who your child sees, what routine care to expect at each age and what to do when they are ill.
Getting a pediatrician (pediatra) for your child · Routine child health check-ups (revisiones del niño sano) by age · When your child moves from pediatrician (pediatra) to family doctor
Child and teen vaccinations
You will know which vaccines your child needs at each age, how to catch up and how to prove it.
Spain's childhood vaccine schedule by age · Catching up on vaccines your child had abroad · Which child vaccines are free and which you pay for
Pregnancy care
You will know who looks after your pregnancy, what tests to expect and how to get care even before your card is sorted.
Moving to Spain while pregnant: timing and continuity of care · Starting pregnancy care with a midwife (matrona) · Getting pregnancy care before your health card or status is sorted
Birth and newborn care
You will know where and how birth works, what happens to your baby in the first days and what care you get afterwards.
Choosing where to give birth in Spain · Giving birth in a Spanish hospital: what to expect · What having a baby in Spain costs, public and private
Reproductive and sexual health
You will know where to go for contraception, abortion, testing, gynecology and fertility care and what is funded.
Getting contraception in Spain: methods, access and cost · Emergency contraception (píldora del día después) in Spain · Abortion (interrupción voluntaria del embarazo) in Spain: access and rules
Adult preventive health
You will know which checks, screenings and vaccines adults should get and how to get invited.
How Spain approaches adult preventive care · Getting a baseline health check when you arrive in Spain · Cancer screening in Spain: breast, cervical and colorectal
Other sections in Healthcare and insurance
Public healthcare access
Helps you get and keep access to public healthcare.
Private health insurance
Helps you choose and use suitable private health insurance.
Costs, prescriptions, and medicines
Helps you manage prescriptions, medicines and health costs.
Chronic care and continuity
Helps you keep treatment for a chronic condition going through the move.
Emergency, dental, vision, and mental healthcare
Helps you get emergency, dental, eye and mental health care.
Home, life, and other insurance
Helps you choose and use home, life and other non-health insurance.
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