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Non-evidence-based policy: How effective is China's new cooperative medical scheme in reducing medical impoverishment?

Social Science & Medicine, 2009
In recent years, many lower to middle income countries have looked to insurance as a means to protect their populations from medical impoverishment. In 2003, the Chinese government initiated the New Cooperative Medical System (NCMS), a government-run voluntary insurance program for its rural population.
Yip, W, Hsiao, W
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Targeting vulnerable groups of health poverty alleviation in rural China— what is the role of the New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme for the middle age and elderly population?

International Journal for Equity in Health, 2020
Background In light of the health poverty alleviation policy, we explore whether the New Rural Cooperative Medical System (NRCMS) has effectively reduced the economic burden of medical expenses on rural middle-aged and elderly people and other ...
Nianshi Wang, Jing Xu, Meiyan Ma, Linghan Shan, Mingli Jiao, Qi Xia, Wanxin Tian, Xiyu Zhang, Limin Liu, Yanhua Hao, Lijun Gao, Qunhong Wu, Ye Li   +12 more
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The societal cost and economic impact of surgical care on patients’ households in rural Uganda; a mixed method study

BMC Health Services Research, 2021
Background The epidemiology and cost of surgical care delivery in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) is poorly understood. This study characterizes the cost of surgical care, rate of catastrophic medical expenditure and medical impoverishment, and ...
Obieze Nwanna–Nzewunwa, Rasheedat Oke, Esther Agwang, Mary-Margaret Ajiko, Christopher Yoon, Melissa Carvalho, Fred Kirya, Elliot Marseille, Rochelle A. Dicker   +8 more
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Does the medical insurance system play a real role in reducing catastrophic economic burden in elderly patients with cardiovascular disease in China? Implication for accurately targeting vulnerable characteristics

Globalization and Health, 2021
Background The vulnerability of cardiovascular disease (CVD) patients’ health abilities, combined with the severity of the disease and the overlapping risk factors, leads such people to bear the economic burden of the disease due to the medical services.
Meiyan Ma, Wanxin Tian, Jian Kang, Yuze Li, Qi Xia, Nianshi Wang, Wenqing Miao, Xiyu Zhang, Yiyun Zhang, Baoguo Shi, Han Gao, Tao Sun, Xuelian Fu, Yanhua Hao, Heng Li, Linghan Shan, Qunhong Wu, Ye Li   +17 more
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Impoverished diabetic patients whose doctors facilitate their participation in medical decision making are more satisfied with their care [PDF]

Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2002
Greater participation in medical decision making is generally advocated for patients, and often advocated for those with diabetes. Although some studies suggest that diabetic patients prefer to participate less in decision making than do healthy patients, the empirical relationship between such participation and diabetic patients' satisfaction with ...
Carol, Golin, M Robin, DiMatteo, Naihua, Duan, Barbara, Leake, Lillian, Gelberg   +4 more
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Understanding financial risk protection in China’s health system: a descriptive analysis using data from multiple national household surveys

BMC Public Health, 2023
Background Providing financial risk protection is one of the fundamental goals of health systems. Catastrophic health expenditure (CHE) and medical impoverishment (MI) are two common indicators in evaluating financial risk protection in health.
Yuanyuan Li, Hongcai Guan, Hongqiao Fu
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Additional file 1 of The impact of urban–rural medical insurance integration on medical impoverishment: evidence from China

, 2023
Additional file 1.
Huo, Jinkang, Hu, Mingzheng, Li, Shaojie
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Changes in Health-related Quality of Life Among Impoverished Persons in the Free/Low-Cost Medical Care Program in Japan: Evidence From a Prospective Cohort Study

Journal of Epidemiology, 2022
The Free/Low-Cost Medical Care Program (FLCMC) can subsidize the payment (exempt/lower) in designated institutions in Japan. Given that poverty is a multidimensional concept including social isolation, the FLCMC applicants may need social support over and above financial aid to improve their quality of life.
Daisuke Nishioka, Chisato Tamaki, Noriko Furuita, Hirokazu Nakagawa, Erin Sasaki, Rika Uematsu, Takeshi Ozaki, Satoshi Wakata, Naoki Kondo   +8 more
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Does the medical insurance system really achieved the effect of poverty alleviation for the middle-aged and elderly people in China? Characteristics of vulnerable groups and failure links

BMC Public Health, 2020
Background We examined the physiological, household, and spatial agglomeration characteristics of the health poverty population in China. We identified weak links that affect the implementation of the medical insurance and further improve its ...
Meiyan Ma, Ye Li, Nianshi Wang, Qunhong Wu, Linghan Shan, Mingli Jiao, Xuelian Fu, Heng Li, Tao Sun, Bin Yi, Wanxin Tian, Qi Xia, Baoguo Shi, Yanhua Hao, Hui Yin, Ning Ning, Lijun Gao, Libo Liang, Jiahui Wang   +18 more
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Determining trophic niche width: a novel approach using stable isotope analysis [PDF]

, 2004
1. Although conceptually robust, it has proven difficult to find practical measures of niche width that are simple to obtain, yet provide an adequate descriptor of the ecological position of the population examined. 2.
Adams, C.E., Bearhop, S., Fuller, R.A., Macleod, H., Waldron, S.   +4 more
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