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The China Basic Medical Insurance Program was created in 1999 with three objectives: equal accessibility, affordability, and quality. Today, it has become the biggest medical insurance program in the world, covering 95% of China's population. Since 2015,
Vivian Chen, Wenbin Shao
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How affordable is HUD affordable housing?
AbstractThis article assesses the affordability of U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) rental assistance properties from the perspective of transportation costs. HUD housing is, by definition, affordable from the standpoint of housing costs due to limits on the amounts renters are required to pay.
Shima Hamidi, Reid Ewing, John Renne
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The Affordances of Broken Affordances [PDF]
We consider the use of physical and virtual objects having one or more affordances associated to simple interactions with them. Based on Kaptelinin and Nardi’s notion of instrumental affordance, we investigate what it means to break an affordance, and the two ensuing questions we deem most important: how users may (i) achieve their goals in the ...
Grünbaum, Martin Gielsgaard +1 more
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Cost of Recommended Diet (CoRD) and Its Affordability in Bangladesh
The cost of diet has been recognized as a major determinant of overall diet quality and nutritional outcomes. We aimed to estimate the minimum cost and affordability of the recommended diet based on the updated food-based dietary guidelines (FBDG) in ...
Saiful Islam +3 more
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What do aesthetic affordances afford?
This paper explores various notions of aesthetic affordance recently developed through embodied, situated and enactive approaches to aesthetic experience by Maria Brincker and Shaun Gallagher, and the similarities and differences between them and the idea of affective affordance put forward by Joel Krueger and Giovanna Colombetti.
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Replace government healthcare with patient-controlled health care [PDF]
The purpose of the article is to analyse the shortcomings of the state-run healthcare systems and to substantiate the need for and feasibility of transition to a patient-controlled model.
Deane Waldman
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Analyzing the Hindrance of Husband's Indebtednes due to Dowry and Alimony to Affordability of Ḥajj [PDF]
Among the rights of the wife on her husband is the right to demand dowry and alimony. Alimony is one of the husband's debts, and dowry is a religious financial debt right in most cases.
Seyyed Mahmoud Hal Atai
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Housing affordability and the teacher workforce: the case of Hobart, Australia
Education systems globally are experiencing teacher shortages. While substantial policy and scholarly attention have been directed at supply and demand and working conditions for teachers, less attention has been paid to ensuring that teachers can afford
Nicola Kidston +2 more
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Background: Essential medicine is a vital component to assure universal access to quality healthcare. However, the trend of affordability to essential medicines in China and its regional differences were not yet fully understood.
Zheng Liu +53 more
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Objective: The study aimed to evaluate the impact of the National Health Insurance Coverage (NHIC) policy on the utilisation and accessibility of innovative anti-cancer medicines in Nanjing, China.Methods: We used the adjusted World Health Organisation ...
Wenqing Fang +7 more
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