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Understanding and Utilizing Claim Data from the Korean National Health Insurance Service (NHIS) and Health Insurance Review & Assessment (HIRA) Database for Research

open access: yesJournal of Lipid and Atherosclerosis, 2021
Almost every Korean (97%) is enrolled in the National Health Insurance program, and most receive medical treatment at least once a year. Data are collected by the Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service (HIRA), and the results of the review are ...
D. Kyoung, Hun‐Sung Kim
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Health insurance coverage in low-income and middle-income countries: progress made to date and related changes in private and public health expenditure

open access: yesBMJ Global Health, 2022
Introduction Several low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) have implemented health insurance programmes to foster accessibility to healthcare and reduce catastrophic household health expenditure.
Brady Hooley   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Examining the level and inequality in health insurance coverage in 36 sub-Saharan African countries

open access: yesBMJ Global Health, 2021
Introduction Low/middle-income countries (LMICs) in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are increasingly turning to public contributory health insurance as a mechanism for removing financial barriers to access and extending financial risk protection to the ...
E. Barasa   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Machine Learning-Based Regression Framework to Predict Health Insurance Premiums

open access: yesInternational Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2022
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in healthcare are approaches to make people’s lives easier by anticipating and diagnosing diseases more swiftly than most medical experts.
Keshav Kaushik   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Assessment of the design and implementation challenges of the National Health Insurance Scheme in Nigeria: a qualitative study among sub-national level actors, healthcare and insurance providers

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2021
Background Health insurance is an important mechanism to prevent financial hardship in the process of accessing health care. Since the launch of Nigeria’s National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) in 2005, only 5% of Nigerians have health insurance and 70%
G. Alawode, D. Adewole
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Universal health insurance in Africa: a narrative review of the literature on institutional models

open access: yesBMJ Global Health, 2022
Introduction Several African countries have introduced universal health insurance (UHI) programmes. These programmes aim to extend health insurance to groups that are usually excluded, namely informal workers and the indigent.
Mamadou Selly Ly, O. Bassoum, A. Faye
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Equity in health insurance schemes enrollment in low and middle-income countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis

open access: yesInternational Journal for Equity in Health, 2022
Background Ensuring access to essential quality health services and reducing financial hardship for all individuals regardless of their ability to pay are the main goals of universal health coverage.
Doris Osei Afriyie   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Trends in US Health Insurance Coverage During the COVID-19 Pandemic

open access: yesJAMA Health Forum, 2021
This cross-sectional study seeks to determine how health insurance coverage changed in the US during the COVID-19 pandemic.
PhDMBAMPH M.KateBundorf   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Predicting the Intention and Purchase of Health Insurance Among Malaysian Working Adults

open access: yesSAGE Open, 2021
This study explored the effects of insurance literacy, perceived usefulness, attitude toward health insurance, subjective norm, and perceived behavioral control on the intention to purchase and the actual purchase of health insurance among working adults
A. Mamun   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Iran health insurance system in transition: equity concerns and steps to achieve universal health coverage

open access: yesInternational Journal for Equity in Health, 2021
Background Equity, efficiency, sustainability, acceptability to clients and providers, and quality are the cornerstones of universal health coverage (UHC). No country has a single way to achieve efficient UHC.
L. Doshmangir   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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