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Determinants of Health Insurance Coverage among People Aged 45 and over in China: Who Buys Public, Private and Multiple Insurance.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2016
BackgroundChina is reforming and restructuring its health insurance system to achieve the goal of universal coverage. This study aims to understand the determinants of public, private and multiple insurance coverage among people of retirement-age in ...
Yinzi Jin, Zhiyuan Hou, Donglan Zhang
doaj   +1 more source

Universal Health Insurance and the Reasons of not Coverage in Iran: Secondary Analysis of a National Household Survey [PDF]

open access: yesTaṣvīr-i salāmat, 2012
Background and objectives : Universal insurance coverage is considered as one of the main goals of health systems around the world. Although Universal Health Insurance Law was legislated with the objective of covering all Iranian population under health ...
Shirin Nosratnejad   +3 more
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Sociodemographic and contextual variables as predictors of men’s health insurance enrolment in Ghana: Evidence from a micro indicator cluster survey [PDF]

open access: yesAdvances in Medicine, Psychology, and Public Health
Introduction: This study explores the ability of sociodemographic and contextual variables, including ethnicity, rural/urban residence, and region, to predict health insurance enrollment among men in Ghana.
Richard Boateng
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Invisible illness: The consequences of limited health insurance in Africa

open access: yesHealth Science Reports, 2023
Background Limited health insurance coverage in Africa poses a significant challenge, impeding access to quality healthcare for millions of individuals.
Aderinto Nicholas, Olatunji Deji
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Insurance loss coverage under restricted risk classification: The case of iso-elastic demand [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This paper investigates equilibrium in an insurance market where risk classification is restricted. Insurance demand is characterised by an iso-elastic function with a single elasticity parameter.
Macdonald, Angus S.   +5 more
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Health Insurance Enrollment Decisions: Preferences for Coverage, Worker Sorting, and Insurance Take-up

open access: yesInquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing, 2008
The weak response by the uninsured to initiatives encouraging voluntary enrollment in health insurance has raised concerns regarding the extent to which the uninsured value insurance.
Alan C. Monheit, Jessica Primoff Vistnes
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Investigating sustainability challenges for the National Health Insurance Fund in Tanzania: a modelling approach

open access: yesBMJ Open, 2023
Objective This study aimed to model the long-term cost associated with expanding public health insurance coverage in Tanzania.Design, setting and participants We analysed the 2016 claims of 2 923 524 beneficiaries of the National Health Insurance Fund in
Günther Fink   +3 more
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Access to care among Medicaid and uninsured patients in community health centers after the Affordable Care Act

open access: yesBMC Health Services Research, 2019
Background The Affordable Care Act expanded Medicaid and increased federal funding for Community Health Centers (CHCs). To examine the role of Medicaid coverage on care patterns for those with available safety net care, we assessed differences in access ...
Veri Seo   +6 more
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Health insurance coverage among women of reproductive age in rural Ghana: policy and equity implications

open access: yesHealth Research Policy and Systems, 2023
Background Globally, health insurance has been identified as a key component of healthcare financing. The implementation of health insurance policies in low and middle-income countries has led to a significant increase in access to healthcare services in
Martin Ayanore   +10 more
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Health Insurance Status as a Barrier to Ideal Cardiovascular Health for U.S. Adults: Data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES). [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2015
Little is known about the association between cardiovascular (CV) health and health insurance status. We hypothesized that U.S. adults without health insurance coverage would have a lower likelihood of ideal cardiovascular health.Using National Health ...
Michael A McClurkin   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

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