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Evaluating the effect of health insurance reform on health equity and financial protection for elderly in low- and middle-income countries: evidences from China

Globalization and Health
Background To achieve Universal Health Coverage (UHC), China have implemented health system reform to expend health coverage and improve health equity. Scholars have explored the implementing effect of this health reform, but gaps remained in health care
Hongzhi Wang, Xin Xiang
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Coverage, Access, and Affordability under Health Reform: Learning from the Massachusetts Model

Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing, 2012
While the impacts of the Affordable Care Act will vary across the states given their different circumstances, Massachusetts' 2006 reform initiative, the template for national reform, provides a preview of the potential gains in insurance coverage, access
Sharon K. Long, Karen Stockley, Kate Willrich Nordahl   +2 more
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The Malaysian health care system: Ecology, plans, and reforms

Family Medicine and Community Health, 2016
Malaysia is on its way to achieving developed nation status in the next 4 years. Currently, Malaysia is on track for three Millennium Development Goals (MDG1, MDG4, and MDG7).
Andrea Sebastian, Mohamed Ali Alzain, Collins Otieno Asweto, Gehendra Mahara, Xiuhua Guo, Manshu Song, Youxin Wang, Wei Wang   +7 more
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Pathways to reform - health funding and the reform of Federation [PDF]

, 2015
INTRODUCTION The Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation (CHERE) has been commissioned by the Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association (AHHA) to write two papers as part of the Association’s series on Pathways to Reform.
Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association
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Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy in Bionanotechnology: Current Advances and Future Perspectives

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Kelvin probe force microscopy (KPFM) enables the nanoscale mapping of electrostatic surface potentials. While widely applied in materials science, its use in biological systems remains emerging. This review presents recent advances in KPFM applied to biological samples and provides a critical perspective on current limitations and future directions for
Ehsan Rahimi, Mario Palacios‐Corella, Arjan Mol, Salvador Pané, Josep Puigmartí‐Luis   +4 more
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Integrating Health Services in Ontario Through Mergers and Centralization

Health Reform Observer - Observatoire des Réformes de Santé, 2020
On 18 April 2019, the Legislative Assembly of Ontario passed Bill 74, The People’s Health Care Act, which provided new authorities to the Ministry of Health and a newly createdOntario Health super agency to facilitate the integration of health care ...
Krithika Ragupathi
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Assembling a True “Olympic Gel” From over 16 000 Combinatorial DNA Rings

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Olympic gels are an elusive class of soft matter, consisting of molecular networks held together purely by mechanically interlocked rings. Their topological structure promises unique properties and functions, but their synthesis has proven notoriously difficult.
Sarah K. Speed, Yu‐Hsuan Peng, Azra Atabay, Krishna Gupta, Toni Müller, Carolin Fischer, Ilka M. Hermes, Jens‐Uwe Sommer, Michael Lang, Elisha Krieg   +9 more
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Health in Uruguay: Progress and Challenges in the Right to Health Care Three Years after the First Progressive Government

Social Medicine, 2008
Using a social medicine perspective, this article describes the Frente Amplio [Broad Front] government strategies for creating a more social, productive, democratic, innovative, and culturally integrated Uruguay.
Fernando Borgia
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Stable Protein‐Based G‐Quadruplex‐Derived Supramolecular Bioinks as Tunable ECM‐Mimetic Constructs Assembled by Combining Non‐Covalent and Covalent Strategies

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Harnessing the synergistic interplay of supramolecular self‐assembly, under macromolecular crowding conditions, and enzymatic‐mediated covalent crosslinking toward a stable protein‐based G‐quadruplex‐derived supramolecular bioink. This bioinspired strategy enables the biofabrication of complex and tunable ECM‐mimetic constructs, providing a platform ...
Vera Sousa, Rita Sobreiro‐Almeida, Bart W. L. van den Bersselaar, E. W. Meijer, Ghislaine Vantomme, João Borges, João F. Mano   +6 more
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Health Care System Reform in China: Issues, Challenges and Options [PDF]

This paper examines health care reform in urban and rural China. Before health care reform, Chinese health service facilities were run entirely by the state and basically they performed a social welfare function.
Rong Hu, Heng-fu Zou, Chunli Shen
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