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Optimizing mobile health clinic placement via geospatial modeling [PDF]

Public Health in Practice
Objectives: Mobile health clinics (MHCs) provide flexible, community-based care to underserved populations facing geographic and socioeconomic barriers.
Shakhawat H. Tanim, David L. White, Brian Witrick, Lior Rennert   +3 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Attitudes of Israeli medical students towards the medical treatment of uninsured migrants [PDF]

BMC Medical Education, 2020
Background Undocumented migration to developed countries poses practical concerns, as migrants are not medically insured. This cross-sectional study aims to appraise the attitudes of Israeli medical students towards the uninsured migrant population ...
Zohar Mor, Adam Cadesky, Ran Halleluyan, Rivka Sheffer   +3 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Providing health care to medically uninsured immigrants and refugees [PDF]

Cmaj, 2006
Immigrants and refugees are a vulnerable population in any country. Global migration has produced some 17 million “people of concern” worldwide, of whom well over half (10 million) are refugees.
Paul, Caulford, Yasmin, Vali
exaly   +3 more sources

Pilot Study of a New Model for Managing Hypertension in an Uninsured Population

Journal of Primary Care and Community Health, 2013
For millions of uninsured Americans who have hypertension, quality medical care is too expensive to access with any regularity. The Community-based Chronic Disease Management (CCDM) Clinic was created to deliver clinical care for medically uninsured ...
Jim Sanders
exaly   +2 more sources

Medically assisted procreation: A new legal framework to overcome infertility in Morocco in the context of energy optimization [PDF]

E3S Web of Conferences, 2023
After more than a quarter of a century of the practice of medically assisted procreation (MAP) in Morocco in the absence of a legal framework, the Moroccan legislator passed Law 47-14, in April 2019, to make up for the considerable delay in the field of ...
Ghallam Aziza, Bouasria Leila, Zirari Hayat   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Impact of birth tourism on health care systems in Calgary, Alberta

BMC Health Services Research, 2022
Background Birth tourism refers to non-resident women giving birth in a country outside of their own in order to obtain citizenship and/or healthcare for their newborns.
Simrit Brar, Mruganka Kale, Colin Birch, Fiona Mattatall, Medini Vaze   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Health outcomes, health services utilization, and costs consequences of medicare uninsurance among migrants in Canada: a systematic review

BMC Health Services Research, 2023
Background Medically uninsured groups, many of them migrants, reportedly delay using healthcare services due to costs and often face preventable health consequences. This systematic review sought to assess quantitative evidence on health outcomes, health
Sophiya Garasia, Valerie Bishop, Stephanie Clayton, Genevieve Pinnington, Chika Arinze, Ezza Jalil   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Free and Charitable Clinic Telehealth Adoption and Utilization During the COVID-19 Era: The North Carolina Experience

Telemedicine Reports, 2023
Purpose: The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic led health care systems and providers worldwide to rapidly adopt telehealth solutions to minimize risk and comply with isolation mandates.
Julie Ann Sakowski, Ashley Parks, Danielle Nunnery, Andrew Wear   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Do employer-sponsored health insurance schemes affect the utilisation of medically trained providers and out-of-pocket payments among ready-made garment workers? A case–control study in Bangladesh

BMJ Open, 2020
Objective We estimated the effect of an employer-sponsored health insurance (ESHI) scheme on healthcare utilisation of medically trained providers and reduction of out-of-pocket (OOP) expenditure among ready-made garment (RMG) workers.Design We used a ...
Sayem Ahmed, Md Zahid Hasan, Abdur Razzaque Sarker, Marufa Sultana, Clas Rehnberg, Ziaul Islam, Rashidul Alam Mahumud, Felix Roth, Md Kamruzzaman, Andrew J. Mirelman, Louis W. Niessen, AK Azad Khan, Niklaus Gyr, Jahangir A.M. Khan   +13 more
doaj   +1 more source

The impact of community-based health insurance on the utilization of medically trained healthcare providers among informal workers in Bangladesh. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2018
We aimed to estimate the impact of a Community-Based Health Insurance (CBHI) scheme on utilization of healthcare from medically trained providers (MTP) by informal workers.
Sayem Ahmed, Abdur Razzaque Sarker, Marufa Sultana, Sanchita Chakrovorty, Mohammad Wahid Ahmed, Farzana Dorin, Andrew J Mirelman, Ziaul Islam, Mohammad Hafizur Rahman, Louis W Niessen, Clas Rehnberg, Jahangir A M Khan   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source