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Reasons why insured consumers co-pay for medicines at retail pharmacies in Pretoria, South Africa
African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine, 2019 Background: Costly prescription medicines with existing cheaper alternatives tend to be purchased by medically insured consumers of healthcare. In South Africa medical scheme members pay higher out-of-pocket payments for medicines than those without ...
Ntobeko M. Mpanza +2 more
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Contract Design in Insurance Groups [PDF]
In many rural settings, informal mutual support networks have evolved into semiformal insurance groups, such as funeral societies. Using detailed panel data for six villages in Ethiopia, we can distinguish two types of contracts, in terms of whether ...
Tessa Bold, Stefan Dercon
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American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Substance use, specifically opioid and methamphetamine use, is of increasing concern among American Indian (AI) populations in the Great Plains. This community‐driven participatory study investigated the impacts of substance use and community‐defined needs in treating addiction.
Brynn Luger +8 more
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American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Health inequalities persist along lines of income and wealth, shaped by unequal access to healthcare, differences in health behaviors, and pre‐existing chronic conditions. The COVID‐19 pandemic further put families in Korea under health strain and worsened their health outcomes.
Jaehyun Nam +3 more
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American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract In Canada, precarious migration is largely invisibilized. Nonetheless, b/ordering greatly affects people's realities by limiting access to social rights. In Quebec, migrants with precarious status (MPS) do not have access to healthcare, although Quebec has a “universal” healthcare coverage.
Émilie Pigeon‐Gagné +3 more
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Improving Incentives in Unemployment Insurance: A Review of Recent Research [PDF]
This paper provides a review of the recent literature on how incentives in unemployment insurance (UI) can be improved. We are particularly concerned with three instruments, viz.
Holmlund, Bertil, Fredriksson, Peter
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Risk-Reducing Effectiveness of Revenue versus Yield Insurance in the Presence of Government Payments
Government farm support programs such as Loan Deficiency Payments (LDP) and Counter-Cyclical Payments (CCP) have payoff structures that effectively make them costless price insurance instruments.
Power, Gabriel J., Vedenov, Dmitry V.
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Extending Health Insurance: Effects of the National Health Insurance Scheme in Ghana [PDF]
There is considerable interest in exploring the potential of health insurance to increase the access to, and the affordability of, health care in Africa.
Noemi Pace, Agar Brugiavini
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Streamlining Diagnosis of Bardet–Biedl Syndrome: New Diagnostic Algorithm With Updated Criteria
American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Considerable advances have been made in our understanding of Bardet–Biedl syndrome (BBS), particularly in its core clinical features and molecular genetics, warranting an update to the existing diagnostic criteria framework. Using a rigorous, evidence‐based, and consensus‐driven process, a multidisciplinary group of international experts and ...
Jeremy J. Pomeroy +16 more
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Late Payment of Insurance Money
Erasmus Law Review, 2012 markdownabstract__Abstract__ The question of damages for failure to pay sums due came before the House of Lords in 2007 in the Sempra case. Although not the main ground of the decision, the House stated that a claimant would succeed, if the claimant satisfied the usual tests of 'remoteness' of loss. The article shows how difficult and thus expensive
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