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Effects of integrated care on the subjective quality of life and social relationships of older adults in South Korea

open access: yesBMC Geriatrics
Objectives This study examined the effects of integrated care on the subjective quality of life and social relationships of older adults in South Korea.
Hyun Ji Lee   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Turning to Medicaid and SCHIP in an Economic Recession: Conversations With Recent Applicants and Enrollees [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Based on focus group discussions, examines how the loss of jobs and employer-sponsored health insurance affects families. Explores the limitations of COBRA and private insurance and the role of Medicaid and State Children's Health Insurance ...
Barbara Lyons   +3 more
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Health Insurance in China

open access: yes, 2018
Health insurance in China is the topic of this chapter. Up until the economic reforms of the 1980s, communities (a village or a group of villages) were managing the social welfare of their inhabitants. The system was extremely decentralized. With the collapse of the community medical system, existing public establishments were either replaced by ...
openaire   +4 more sources

Kenya National Hospital Insurance Fund Reforms: Implications and Lessons for Universal Health Coverage

open access: yesHealth systems and reform, 2018
This article identifies and describes the reforms undertaken by the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) and examines their implications for Kenya’s quest to achieve universal health coverage (UHC).
E. Barasa, K. Rogo, N. Mwaura, J. Chuma
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Purpose and Limits of Social Health Insurance [PDF]

open access: yes
This contribution seeks to answer two related questions. First, what is the purpose of social health insurance? Or put in slightly different terms, what are the reasons for social (or public) health insurance to exist, even to dominate private health ...
Peter Zweifel
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Effect of the Affordable Care Act on Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Insurance Coverage.

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Public Health, 2016
OBJECTIVES To document how health insurance coverage changed for White, Black, and Hispanic adults after the Affordable Care Act (ACA) went into effect. METHODS We used data from the American Community Survey from 2008 to 2014 to examine changes in the
T. Buchmueller   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Predictors of Enrolment in the National Health Insurance Scheme Among Women of Reproductive Age in Nigeria

open access: yesInternational Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2018
Background: Despite the implementation of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) since 2005 in Nigeria, the level of health insurance coverage remains low. The study aims to examine the predictors of enrolment in the NHIS among women of reproductive
Bolaji Samson Aregbeshola, S. Khan
semanticscholar   +1 more source

¿Cómo afecta el tipo de seguro de salud a la realización del Papanicolaou en Perú?

open access: yesRevista Panamericana de Salud Pública
OBJETIVO: Describir la asociación entre la realización de la citología del cuello uterino y el tipo de seguro de salud en las mujeres peruanas, y determinar el papel de las variables sociodemográficas y de salud sexual en esta relación.
Leslie Barrionuevo-Rosas   +2 more
doaj  

After Years of Decline, Private Health Insurance Rates Among Children Grew in 2014 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
In this fact sheet, author Michael Staley reports that rates of private health insurance coverage for children increased between 2013 and 2014 for the first time since 2008, the first year in which the American Community Survey collected data on health ...
Staley, Michael J.
core   +1 more source

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