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What has affected the governance effect of the whole population coverage of medical insurance in China in the past decade? Lessons for other countries

Frontiers in Public Health, 2023
ObjectiveThis study aimed to explore the current state of governance of full population coverage of health insurance in China and its influencing factors to provide empirical references for countries with similar social backgrounds as China.MethodsA ...
Ting Zhang, Hongyu Zhang, Wenqing Miao, Jinpeng Xu, Qi Shi, Jian Liu, Fangmin Deng, Jingran He, Fangting Chen, Zheng Kang, Qunhong Wu, Guomei Tian   +11 more
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Health insurance coverage and its impact on medical cost: observations from the floating population in China. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2014
China has the world's largest floating (migrant) population, which has characteristics largely different from the rest of the population. Our goal is to study health insurance coverage and its impact on medical cost for this population.A telephone survey
Yinjun Zhao, Bowei Kang, Yawen Liu, Yichong Li, Guoqing Shi, Tao Shen, Yong Jiang, Mei Zhang, Maigeng Zhou, Limin Wang   +9 more
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Determinants of Health Insurance Coverage among People Aged 45 and over in China: Who Buys Public, Private and Multiple Insurance. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2016
BACKGROUND:China 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
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Health insurance coverage and the macroeconomy [PDF]

Journal of Health Economics, 2005
This paper investigates the relationship between the macroeconomy and health insurance coverage for non-elderly Americans. We find that, for men, state unemployment rate is positively correlated with the probability of health insurance coverage in general and through an employer in particular, and that these correlations are only partly explained by ...
John Cawley, Kosali I. Simon
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Spatial distribution and associated factors of health insurance coverage in Ethiopia: further analysis of Ethiopia demographic and health survey, 2016

Archives of Public Health, 2020
Background Health insurance is one of the instruments to achieve universal health coverage. However, in Ethiopia, the coverage of health insurance is very low and varies from place to place as well. Therefore, exploring the spatial distribution of health
Sewnet Adem Kebede, Alemneh Mekuriaw Liyew, Getayeneh Antehunegn Tesema, Chilot Desta Agegnehu, Achamyeleh Birhanu Teshale, Adugnaw Zeleke Alem, Yigizie Yeshaw   +6 more
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Health insurance coverage and marriage behavior: Is there evidence of marriage lock?

International Studies of Economics, 2023
Premiums and eligibility for health insurance may cause a “marriage lock,” in which couples stay married for the sake of maintaining health insurance coverage.
Tianxu Chen
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Insurance coverage for genomic tests [PDF]

Science, 2018
On 16 March, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that Medicare will cover Food and Drug Administration (FDA)–approved or cleared genomic tests that encompass broad gene panels for advanced cancer patients ([ 1 ][1]).
Louis P. Garrison, Julia R. Trosman, Patricia A. Deverka, Patricia A. Deverka, Bruce Quinn, Sean Tunis, Peter J. Neumann, Christine B. Weldon, Michael P. Douglas, James D. Chambers, Kathryn A. Phillips   +10 more
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Infants without health insurance: Racial/ethnic and rural/urban disparities in infant households' insurance coverage.

PLoS ONE, 2020
In order to gain insights into how the effects of the uneven adoption of Medicaid expansion varies across the rural/urban spectrum and between racial/ethnic groups in the United States, this research used the fertility question in the 2011-2015 American ...
Scott R Sanders, Michael R Cope, Paige N Park, Wesley Jeffery, Jorden E Jackson   +4 more
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Examining the level and inequality in health insurance coverage in 36 sub-Saharan African countries

BMJ Global Health, 2021
Introduction Low/middle-income countries (LMICs) in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are increasingly turning to public contributory health insurance as a mechanism for removing financial barriers to access and extending financial risk protection to the ...
Edwine Barasa, Nirmala Ravishankar, Peter Nguhiu, Jacob Kazungu   +3 more
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The importance of the choice of test for finding evidence of asymmetric information [PDF]

, 2014
We put one of the predictions of adverse-selection models to the test, using data from the Danish automobile insurance market: that there is a positive correlation between claims risk and insurance coverage.
Donnelly, Catherine, Englund, Martin, Nielsen, Jens Perch   +2 more
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