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Compulsory Health Insurance [PDF]

open access: yesJournal 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
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Multilevel Analysis of the Relationship Between Prescribing Institutions and Medication Adherence Among Patients With Hypertension and Diabetes in Korea [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, 2023
Objectives This study investigated the relationship between prescribing institutions and medication adherence among patients newly diagnosed with hypertension and diabetes.
Haryeom Ghang, Juhyang Lee
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National and state-level colorectal cancer mortality trends in Mexico, 1998-2018

open access: yesSalud Pública de México, 2021
Objective. To describe the burden of colorectal cancer (CRC) in Mexico and understand mortality patterns based on sex, geography, and insurance status. Materials and methods.
Priscilla Espinosa-Tamez   +7 more
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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

Data resource profile: the allergic disease database of the Korean National Health Insurance Service [PDF]

open access: yesEpidemiology and Health, 2021
Researchers have been interested in probing how the environmental factors associated with allergic diseases affect the use of medical services. Considering this demand, we have constructed a database, named the Allergic Disease Database, based on the ...
Sunyong Yoo   +8 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

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

Effects of Temperature and Pressure on Acute Stroke Incidence Assessed Using a Korean Nationwide Insurance Database [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Stroke, 2017
Background and Purpose Many studies have evaluated the association between weather and stroke, with variable conclusions. Herein we determined the relationships between daily meteorological parameters and acute stroke incidence in South Korea.
Jae-Sung Lim   +5 more
doaj   +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

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

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%
Gbadegesin O. Alawode, D. Adewole
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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