Health Insurance

 

Before your departure, it is important that you should check how you are insured in the event of illness and if you should need home transport, and also your household contents insurance.

 

You are not required to take out insurance, but we strongly recommend that you arrange travel insurance for yourself. Hopefully, you will not need it, but should things go wrong, you can save yourself and your family a lot of unnecessary worry and expense!  

 

Health insurance

Your health insurance cover depends where you are going:

 

Nordic region

If you are a citizen in a Nordic country and travel to another Nordic country:

• You are covered by the health insurance system in that country.
• You must take a set of “Internordiske Flyttepapirer” (Internordic relocation certificate) with you. This will be issued to you by the National Registration Office in your municipality of residence. The certificate must be sent/submitted to the local authorities in the country to which you are travelling.  

Europe

If you are a citizen in an EU member states and travel to another EU member state for less than 12 months:

• You must have a European Health Insurance Card (EHIC). Please note that your normal national insurance card is only valid for one month when abroad.
• The European Health Insurance Card is issued by the National Registration Office in your municipality of residence. Applications are processed in approx. 1 week.
• With a European health insurance card, you are entitled to the same state-provided medical treatment as the citizens of the country you are visiting. This may mean that medical treatment is not completely free, and that you may have to pay a contribution towards the cost of your care.
• You must take out insurance if you want home transport cover and cover for your own contribution to costs.  

Overseas

If you travel outside the Nordic region and Europe:

 

• You are not covered by the Danish yellow national insurance card.
• You must take out insurance covering medical care and home transport.
• Some overseas partner universities demand that you take out a particular insurance; you will hear more about this when you are offered the exchange place.  

Vaccinations

Whether you need vaccinations depends on where you are going. For further information, contact your own GP or visit www.vaccination.dk, where you can also find information about where to get vaccinated.