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Healthcare utilisation for elderly people at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in South Korea
BMC Geriatrics, 2022 Background At the onset of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, health care systems were severely disrupted in many countries and in particular, elderly people vulnerable to COVID-19 may have been reluctant to receive their medical treatment.
K. Park, J. Byeon, Y. Yang, H. Cho
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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 +3 more
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BMC Health Services Research, 2023 Background Ghana introduced a mobile phone-based contribution payment system in its national health insurance scheme (NHIS) in December 2018 to improve the process of enrolment.
Eric Nsiah-Boateng +5 more
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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 +3 more
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On discrimination in health insurance [PDF]
Social Choice and Welfare, 2019 In many countries, private health insurance companies are allowed to vary their premiums based on some information on individuals. This practice is intuitively justified by the idea that people should pay the premium corresponding to their own known risk. However, one may consider this as a form of discrimination or wrongful differential treatment. Our
Boyer-Kassem, Thomas +1 more
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Risk for metabolic syndrome in the population with visceral fat area measured by bioelectrical impedance analysis [PDF]
The Korean Journal of Internal Medicine, 2021 Background/Aims To investigate whether visceral fat area (VFA) measured by bioelectric impedance analysis (BIA) was associated with metabolic syndrome in subjects with and without obesity.
Han Ho Jeon +5 more
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Frontiers in Public Health, 2023 IntroductionLong-term care hospitals are known to be vulnerable to SARS-CoV-2 infection and death given their numerous older chronic disease patients. However, the actual effect of long-term care hospital admission is not well known in Korea; hence, this
Jeong-Yeon Seon +3 more
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Healthcare Utilization Monitoring System in Korea [PDF]
Healthcare Informatics Research, 2015 ObjectivesIt is important to monitor the healthcare utilization of patients at the national level to make evidence-based policy decisions and manage the nation's healthcare sector.
Hyun Chul Shin +3 more
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BMC Cancer, 2021 Background Almost all Koreans are covered by mandatory national health insurance and are required to undergo health screening at least once every 2 years.
Chansik An +6 more
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The long-term effect of generic price competition on the Hungarian statin market
BMC Health Services Research, 2023 Background Generic competition is a vital health policy tool used in regulating the pharmaceutical market. Drug group HMG-CoA reductase (3-hydroxy-3-methyl-glutaryl-coenzyme-A reductase) inhibitors, widely known as “statins,” was the first drug group in ...
Balázs Répásy +7 more
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