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Estimation of the Financial Burden to the National Health Insurance for Patients with Major Cancers in Taiwan

open access: yesJournal of the Formosan Medical Association, 2008
Almost all countries that have national health insurance schemes face financial challenges. A better understanding of the financial burden that cancer places on Taiwan's National Health Insurance (NHI) is important for helping policy makers to plan under
Po-Ching Chu   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Analysing Catastrophic OOP Health Expenditure in India : Concepts, Determinants and Policy Implications [PDF]

open access: yes
The present paper attempts to modify definition of catastrophic out-of-pocket health expenditure by characterising it based on consumption of necessities.
Rama Pal
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Magnitude of Out of Pocket Health Expenditures and Associated Factors Among Civil Servants [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
In Ethiopia, as other developing countries, public health care is provided at nominally low prices and free to those that does not afford to pay. But the health care consumer population is still to make considerable amount of out-of-pocket health ...
Gedefaw, M. (Molla)   +3 more
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Evaluation of a Novel Electric Health Record Sidecar Application to Display Rheumatoid Arthritis Clinical Outcomes During Clinic Visits: Results of a Stepped‐Wedge Cluster Randomized Pragmatic Trial

open access: yesArthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective We developed a novel electronic health record sidecar application to visualize key rheumatoid arthritis (RA) outcomes, including disease activity, physical function, and pain, via a patient‐facing graphical interface designed for use during outpatient visits (“RA PRO dashboard”).
Gabriela Schmajuk   +16 more
wiley   +1 more source

Does the leading pharmaceutical reform in China really solve the issue of overly expensive healthcare services? Evidence from an empirical study.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2018
BackgroundHealthcare system reform of Sanming city has become a leading healthcare reform model in China. It has developed a rigorous pharmaceutical reform consisted of the Zero Mark-up Drug Policy and the Centralized Procurement of Medicine Policy to ...
Yunzhen He   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Determinants and Equity Evaluation for Health Expenditure Among Patients with Rare Diseases in China

open access: yesChinese Medical Journal, 2016
Background: China has not established social security system for rare diseases. Rare diseases could easily impoverish patients and their families. Little research has studied the equity and accessibility of health services for patients with rare diseases
Xiao-Xiong Xin   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Medical Expenditure Puzzle [PDF]

open access: yes
What does your medical expenditure do to your health? Researchers often get significant negative sign on the relative coefficient in the reduced form health production regression.
Xiaoshu Han
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Health Expenditure Scenarios in the New Member States: Country Report on Poland. ENEPRI Research Reports No. 47, 19 December 2007 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
The objective of this report is to present the model of future health care system revenues and expenditures in Poland, and to discuss assumptions for the projection and projection results. Expenditure analysis is based on ILO social budget model, part of
Golinowska, Stanislawa   +2 more
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Beyond Antimalarial Stock-outs: Implications of Health Provider Compliance on Out-of-Pocket Expenditure during Care-Seeking for Fever in South East Tanzania. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
To better understand how stock-outs of the first line antimalarial, Artemisinin-based Combination Therapy (ACT) and other non-compliant health worker behaviour, influence household expenditures during care-seeking for fever in the Ulanga District in ...
Abdallah, Gumi   +7 more
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New Onset of Fibromyalgia After Exposure to a Combat Environment: A Longitudinal Cohort Study

open access: yesArthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective Traumatic life events are hypothesized to be triggers for the onset of fibromyalgia. Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a common comorbidity of fibromyalgia. However, limited prospective data are available on the development of fibromyalgia after exposure to high‐magnitude stress.
Jay B. Higgs   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

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