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Major Medical Expense Insurance

American Journal of Public Health and the Nations Health, 1958
THERE IS EVIDENCE that the medical bills of families in the United States currently average about $250 a year. The range of expense incurred by particular families is, however, very broad. Some fortunate few have little or no expense; a large number incur expenses of more substantial but still fairly modest amounts.
C. Siegfried
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Major Medical Expense Insurance: An Evaluation

American Journal of Public Health and the Nations Health, 1957
on which earlier health insurance plans have been grounded and by forcing a reappraisal of basic objectives, it has become one of the most critical issues facing the future of voluntarv health insurance. Major medical is a form of insurance that requires the insured to assume the full cost of a segment of health care.
J. Pollack
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Work disability before and after a major cardiovascular event: a ten-year study using nationwide medical and insurance registers [PDF]

Scientific Reports, 2017
AbstractWe examined the trajectories of work disability before and after IHD and stroke events. New IHD (n = 13521) and stroke (n = 7162) cases in 2006–2008 were retrieved from nationwide Swedish hospital records and their annual work disability days five years before and after the date of diagnosis were retrieved from a nationwide disability register.
Marianna Virtanen, Jenni Ervasti, Ellenor Mittendorfer-Rutz, Tea Lallukka, Linnea Kjeldgård, Emilie Friberg, Mika Kivimäki, Erik Lundström, Kristina Alexanderson   +8 more
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Evidence From the China Family Panel Studies Survey on the Effect of Integrating the Basic Medical Insurance System for Urban and Rural Residents on the Health Equity of Residents: Difference-in-Differences Analysis

JMIR Public Health and Surveillance, 2023
Background The fragmentation of the medical insurance system is a major challenge to achieving health equity. In response to this problem, the Chinese government is pushing to establish the unified Urban and Rural Resident Basic Medical Insurance (URRBMI)
Yingying Meng, Ran Yu, Huixin Bai, Junqiang Han   +3 more
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Health shocks, basic medical insurance and common prosperity: Based on the analysis of rural middle-aged and elderly groups

Frontiers in Public Health, 2022
Health is a major part of human welfare. The index system of common prosperity was constructed for middle-aged and elderly people in rural areas. Besides, the impart of health shocks and rural basic medical insurance on common prosperity was explored ...
Yuan Zhang, Yuquan Sun, Mingli Xie, Yuping Chen, Shouhui Cao   +4 more
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Universal health insurance in Rwanda: major challenges and solutions for financial sustainability case study of Rwanda community-based health insurance part I

The Pan African Medical Journal, 2020
Introduction Universal Health Coverage (UHC) has engaged attention of policy makers at both global and country levels. UHC is one of three strategic priorities of World Health Organization's (WHO) general program of work for 2019-2023, and it is then a ...
Médard Nyandekwe, M. Nzayirambaho, J. Kakoma   +2 more
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Services in public long-term care insurance in Japan

Annals of Clinical Epidemiology, 2023
In Japan, a public long-term care insurance system was launched in 2000. Residents can receive long-term care according to their care needs, as determined by a nationally standardized certification system.
T. Konishi, H. Inokuchi, H. Yasunaga
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Validation of diagnostic codes of major clinical outcomes in a National Health Insurance database

International Journal of Arrhythmia, 2019
Background and objectivesThe Korean National Health Insurance Service (NHIS) database has been widely used for cardiovascular research. We validated the primary diagnostic codes of major clinical outcomes, including acute myocardial infarction (AMI ...
Jiesuck Park, S. Kwon, E. Choi, You-jung Choi, Euijae Lee, W. Choe, So-Ryoung Lee, M. Cha, W. Lim, Seil Oh   +9 more
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Health Technology Assessment in Support of National Health Insurance in South Africa

International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, 2022
South Africa has embarked on major health policy reform to deliver universal health coverage through the establishment of National Health Insurance (NHI). The aim is to improve access, remove financial barriers to care, and enhance care quality.
M. Wilkinson, Andrew L Gray, R. Wiseman, T. Kredo, K. Cohen, J. Miot, M. Blecher, P. Ruff, Y. Johnson, M. Poluta, S. McGee, T. Leong, M. Brand, F. Suleman, Esnath Maramba, M. Blockman, J. Jugathpal, S. Cleary, N. Nematswerani, S. Moodliar, A. Parrish, Khadija Jamaloodien, T. Stander, K. MacQuilkan, N. Crisp, T. Wilkinson   +25 more
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Development of predictive risk models for major adverse cardiovascular events among patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus using health insurance claims data

Cardiovascular Diabetology, 2018
BackgroundThere exist several predictive risk models for cardiovascular disease (CVD), including some developed specifically for patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM).
James B. Young, M. Gauthier-Loiselle, R. Bailey, A. Manceur, P. Lefebvre, M. Greenberg, M. Lafeuille, M. Duh, B. Bookhart, C. Wysham   +9 more
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