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No Insurance, Public Insurance, and Private Insurance: Do These Options Contribute to Differences in General Health?

Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, 1995
This paper examines the validity of two of the basic assumptions made about health care insurance and health, namely that having any insurance is associated with better health and, in particular, that having public, welfare-based insurance has better health consequences for the poor than does having no insurance.
B, Hahn, A B, Flood
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Health Services Provided by General Health Insurance

2020
The content of health services is determined depending on the purpose desired to be provided by these services. The purpose of health services is to ensure that the general health insured and the dependents remain healthy, regain their health if they become ill, to provide the necessary health allowances in case of occupational accident, occupational ...
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General Health Insurance Coverage

2020
The determination and management of health policies in Turkey has a fragmented appearance. Accordingly, different institutions have undertaken different tasks in the field of health. As a matter of fact, although the basic task is convened in the Ministry of Health, it is seen that various public institutions and private organizations are active in ...
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Developments and General Features of National Health Insurance in Korea

Social Work in Public Health, 2010
The purpose of this paper is to examine the unique features and current issues of National Health Insurance (NHI) in Korea and to propose future tasks and recommendations. NHI has improved the equity of insurance contributions and the efficiency of managerial operations by converting a society-based corporatist system with multiple insurers into a ...
Kyo-Seong, Kim, Young-Jae, Lee
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Can Health Insurance Regulations Generate Citizen Constituencies?

Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, 2019
Abstract Context: A political science literature has emerged on the policy feedback effects of alternative health care coverage expansions, focusing on whether programs like Medicare, Medicaid, and the Affordable Care Act can generate robust public constituencies. Yet, scholars have mainly examined direct governmental benefits and rarely
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The Second Generation Slovenian Health Insurance Card

2009
Ten years have passed since the design of the Slovenian health insurance card system, which has been used daily in the entire Slovenian health sector for the last eight years. Eventually, however, a growing number of business and technical reasons arose for the gradual renovation of the system.
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Can health insurance coverage explain the generic competition paradox?

Economics Letters, 2008
Abstract In the context of a three-stage model with consumers differing in their health insurance coverage, the paper shows that there exist conditions under which the price of brand-name drugs increases following the entry of generic drugs.
Ida Ferrara, Ying Kong
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Does more generous dental insurance coverage improve oral health?

The Journal of the American Dental Association, 1985
An examination of whether dental insurance affects oral health is discussed in terms of different subgroups, including children and disadvantaged groups.
H, Bailit, J, Newhouse, R, Brook, N, Duan, G, Goldberg, J, Hanley, C, Kamberg, V, Spolsky, A, Black, K, Lohr   +9 more
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Can Turkey's general health insurance system achieve universal coverage?

The International Journal of Health Planning and Management, 2011
SUMMARYThis study aims to evaluate the General Health Insurance System (GHIS) in Turkey implemented since 1 October 2008, in order to assess whether the GHIS will be able to achieve its objective of universal coverage. Both the breadth and depth of coverage will be taken into account.The study notes out that some socio‐economic problems, such as a ...
Gulbiye Yenimahalleli, Yasar, Ece, Ugurluoglu   +1 more
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