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

PLoS 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
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Health Insurance Coverage among Youth and Young Adults with Work Limitations [PDF]

, 2007
This paper explores health insurance coverage trends for youth (age 15-18) and young adults (age 19-29) with work limitations using data from the Current Population Survey.
Horvath-Rose, Ann, O\u27Day, Bonnie, Stapleton, David C.   +2 more
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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]).
Phillips, Kathryn A, Trosman, Julia R, Deverka, Patricia A, Quinn, Bruce, Tunis, Sean, Neumann, Peter J, Chambers, James D, Garrison, Louis P, Douglas, Michael P, Weldon, Christine B   +9 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]

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

Taṣvīr-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, Arash Rashidian, Nahid Jafari, Alireza Mahboub Ahari   +3 more
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Health Insurance Enrollment Decisions: Preferences for Coverage, Worker Sorting, and Insurance Take-up

Inquiry: 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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Invisible illness: The consequences of limited health insurance in Africa

Health 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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Investigating sustainability challenges for the National Health Insurance Fund in Tanzania: a modelling approach

BMJ 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, Fabrizio Tediosi, August Kuwawenaruwa, Brianna Osetinsky   +3 more
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Access to care among Medicaid and uninsured patients in community health centers after the Affordable Care Act

BMC 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, Travis P. Baggett, Anne N. Thorndike, Peter Hull, John Hsu, Joseph P. Newhouse, Vicki Fung   +6 more
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Health insurance coverage among women of reproductive age in rural Ghana: policy and equity implications

Health 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, Agani Afaya, Maxwell Tii Kumbeni, Timothy Tienbia Laari, Bright Opoku Ahinkorah, Solomon Mohammed Salia, Victoria Bam, Vida Nyagre Yakong, Richard Adongo Afaya, Robert Kaba Alhassan, Abdul-Aziz Seidu   +10 more
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