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Health insurance of rural/township schoolchildren in Pinggu, Beijing: coverage rate, determinants, disparities, and sustainability [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal for Equity in Health, 2008
Background As China re-establishes its health insurance system through various cooperative schemes, little is known about schoolchildren's health insurance.
Zhu Yiliang, Zhu Jane M, Liu Rui
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The effect of health insurance reform on the number of cataract surgeries in Chongqing, China [PDF]

open access: yesBMC Health Services Research, 2011
Background Cataracts are the leading cause of blindness in China, and poverty is a major barrier to having cataract surgery. In 2003, the Chinese government began a series of new national health insurance reforms, including the New Cooperative Medical ...
Yuan Rongdi   +4 more
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Cause of death during upper tract urothelial carcinoma survivorship: A contemporary, population-based analysis

open access: yesFrontiers in Oncology, 2022
BackgroundVery few studies have been published on the causes of death of upper tract urothelial carcinoma (UTUC). We sought to explore the mortality patterns of contemporary UTUC survivors.MethodsWe performed a retrospective cohort study involving ...
Fu-Sheng Peng   +5 more
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How do moral hazard behaviors lead to the waste of medical insurance funds? An empirical study from China

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health, 2022
ObjectiveThe huge loss of health insurance funds has been a topic of concern around the world. This study aims to explore the network of moral hazard activities and the attribution mechanisms that lead to the loss of medical insurance funds.MethodsData ...
Yinghua Qin   +8 more
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Do Unpaid Children’s Hospital Account Balances Correlate with Family Income or Insurance Type?

open access: yesPlastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Global Open, 2023
Background:. Current understanding of medical debt among various income ranges and insurance carriers is limited. We analyzed median household incomes, insurance carriers, and medical debt of plastic surgery patients at a major metropolitan children’s ...
Alice Yau, BS   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Medical insurance and healthcare utilization among the middle-aged and elderly in China: evidence from the China health and retirement longitudinal study 2011, 2013 and 2015

open access: yesBMC Health Services Research, 2020
Background In response to China’s rapidly aging population and increasing healthcare service demands, the Chinese government is developing a universal medical insurance system.
Yue Zhou   +5 more
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Health care utilization for patients with stroke: a 3-year cross-sectional study of China’s two urban health insurance schemes across four cities

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2021
Background Stroke is a devastating disease and a major cause of death and disability in China. While existing studies focused mainly on differences in stroke patients’ health care utilization by insurance type, this study assesses whether health ...
Yong Yang   +6 more
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Social health insurance: The major driver of unsustainable fiscal policy? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
During the next decades the populations of most developed countries will grow older as a result of the low level of birth rates since the 1970s and/or the continuously increasing life expectancy.
Hagist, Christian   +3 more
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Health insurance coverage, medical expenditure and coping strategy: evidence from Taiwan

open access: yesBMC Health Services Research, 2012
Background The health insurance system in Taiwan is comprised of public health insurance and private health insurance. The public health insurance, called “universal national health insurance” (NHI), was first established in 1995 and amended in 2011. The
Fang Kuangnan   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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