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How health insurance affects the delivery of health care in developing countries [PDF]

open access: yes
Financial crisis is a common state of affairs in the government health sector of many developing countries, and an increasing number are considering implementing user charges and insurance programs to shift some of the financial burden for health ...
Barnum, Howard, Kutzin, Joseph
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Inferring Rheumatoid Arthritis Disease Activity Status From the Electronic Health Records Across Health Systems

open access: yesArthritis &Rheumatology, EarlyView.
Objective Disease activity plays a central role in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) clinical studies. The inconsistent availability of data on disease activity in real‐world electronic health records (EHRs) data has limited the ability to generate real‐world evidence (RWE).
David Cheng   +34 more
wiley   +1 more source

Health Insurance Status and Physician-Induced Demand for Medical Services in Germany: New Evidence from Combined District and Individual Level Data [PDF]

open access: yes
Germany is one of the few OECD countries with a two-tier system of statutory and primary private health insurance. Both types of insurance provide fee-for-service insurance, but chargeable fees for identical services are more than twice as large for ...
Hendrik Jürges
core   +4 more sources

Methods and Estimates of the Reimbursement for the Nurse Midwifery Center in the National Health Insurance

open access: yesKorean Journal of Women Health Nursing, 2011
The purpose of this study is to develop the optimal nursing fee for nurse-midwifery center (MC) in the national health insurance system.The three methodologies used to calculate the conversion factors for the MCs in the national health insurance include cost accounting method, sustainable growth rate (SGR) model, and index model.
Hyomin, Im, Jinhyun, Kim
openaire   +2 more sources

The Value of Fixed-Reimbursement Healthcare Insurance- Evidence from Cancer Patients in Ontario, Canada [PDF]

open access: yes
Critical illness insurance (CII) is a fixed-reimbursement scheme conditioned on the event of a loss, not the size of the loss. We investigate demand for CII. Consumers will be willing to purchase CII depending on their degree of risk aversion to the cost
Christopher Longo, Michel Grignon
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Public vs private administration of rural health insurance schemes: a comparative study in Zhejiang of China. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
: Since 2003, China has experimented in some of the country's counties with the private administration of the New Cooperative Medical Scheme (NCMS), a publicly subsidized health insurance scheme for rural populations. Our study compared the effectiveness
Rechel, Bernd   +11 more
core   +1 more source

Switching disease‐modifying therapies in patients with spinal muscular atrophy: A systematic review on effectiveness outcomes

open access: yesBritish Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.
With multiple disease‐modifying therapies now available, treatment switching has become an important clinical consideration in the management of spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). While some switches are prompted by suboptimal clinical response, more commonly they are driven by treatment burden, convenience, or adverse events.
Andrej Belančić   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pet Health Insurance in France: Costs, Coverage Differences and Veterinary Care Implications

open access: yesPets
Pet health insurance can reduce the financial burden of veterinary care and ensure adequate treatment for companion animals. In France, where 67% of households own at least one pet and 68% of owners consider them family members, awareness of pet ...
Zoé Goullet   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Should the poor have no medicines to cure? A study on the association between social class and social security among the rural migrant workers in urban China

open access: yesInternational Journal for Equity in Health, 2017
Background The rampant urbanization and medical marketization in China have resulted in increased vulnerabilities to health and socioeconomic disparities among the rural migrant workers in urban China.
Ming Guan
doaj   +1 more source

Availability and reimbursement of biological products for severe asthma in Bulgaria

open access: yesSAGE Open Medicine, 2020
Objectives: This study aims to analyze the reimbursement and cost of biological therapy for severe asthma in Bulgaria during 2014–2019 from the perspective of the National Health Insurance Fund.
Petya Milushewa   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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