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COMPULSORY HEALTH INSURANCE [PDF]

Journal of the American Medical Association, 1917
To the Editor: -The numerous letters on health insurance contained inThe Journal, March 10, 1917, prompt me to remind your readers of one or two facts which have been overlooked by your correspondents. It is suggested by Dr. Albert Bowen of Rochester, N. Y., that the remedy for inadequate wages, insufficient to meet the expenses of illness, is higher
Marc Schulman
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Association between health insurance literacy and avoidance of health care services owing to cost [PDF]

JAMA Network Open, 2018
Importance: Navigating health insurance and health care choices requires considerable health insurance literacy. Although recommended preventive services are exempt from out-of-pocket costs under the Affordable Care Act, many people may remain unaware of
Goold, Susan D, Kieffer, Edith C, Kullgren, Jeffrey T, Politi, Mary C, Scherer, Aaron M, Tipirneni, Renuka   +5 more
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Health insurance coverage in low-income and middle-income countries: progress made to date and related changes in private and public health expenditure

BMJ 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, D. O. Afriyie, G. Fink, F. Tediosi   +3 more
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Machine Learning-Based Regression Framework to Predict Health Insurance Premiums

International 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, Akashdeep Bhardwaj, A. Dwivedi, Rajani Singh   +3 more
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Equity in health insurance schemes enrollment in low and middle-income countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis

International 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, Blerina Krasniq, Brady Hooley, F. Tediosi, G. Fink   +4 more
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Universal health insurance in Africa: a narrative review of the literature on institutional models

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

BMJ 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, Jacob S Kazungu, P. Nguhiu, N. Ravishankar   +3 more
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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

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

JAMA 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, PhDMAMSc SumedhaGupta, BA ChristineKim, Gupta Bundorf   +3 more
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Iran health insurance system in transition: equity concerns and steps to achieve universal health coverage

International 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, M. Bazyar, A. Rashidian, V. S. Gordeev   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source