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Oral Health Problems among Children with Neurodevelopmental Disorders in the United States

International Journal of Maternal and Child Health and AIDS, 2020
Children with neurodevelopmental disabilities (NDD) suffer poor oral health problems (OHP) leading to adverse health outcomes. We examined the association between NDD and OHP among children in the United States (US) ages 3-17 years using data from the ...
Zenab I. Yusuf, MBBS, MPH, Deepa Dongarwar, MS, Rafeek A. Yusuf, MBBS, MPH, MS, Hamisu M. Salihu, MD, PhD   +3 more
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National Health Insurance for the United States [PDF]

, 2023
Approximately 46 million U.S. citizens lack health insurance despite the nation\u27s abundant resources. The imperative for universal healthcare arises, with a proposed solution being mandatory national health insurance.
Herrell, Ashley
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The successful innovations of the affordable care act of 2010

Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, 2017
The purpose of this article is to describe the innovative strategies that were used to develop the first National health insurance program in the United States.
Ronald D. Hester
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Compact of Free Association Migrants and Health Insurance Policies: Barriers and Solutions to Improve Health Equity

Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing, 2019
This commentary outlines the health insurance disparities of Compact of Free Association (COFA) migrants living in the United States. Compact of Free Association migrants are citizens of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of ...
Pearl A. McElfish PhD, Rachel S. Purvis PhD, Sheldon Riklon MD, Seiji Yamada MD   +3 more
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The feasibility analysis of integrating community-based health insurance schemes into the national health insurance scheme in Uganda.

PLoS ONE, 2023
BackgroundUganda has a draft National Health Insurance Bill for the establishment of a National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS). The proposed health insurance scheme is to pool resources, where the rich will subsidize the treatment of the poor, the ...
Prossy Kiddu Namyalo, Boniface Mutatina, Sarah Byakika, Aliyi Walimbwa, Rose Kato, Robert K Basaza   +5 more
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The impact of COVID-19 on healthcare coverage and access in racial and ethnic minority populations in the United States

Geospatial Health, 2023
This study described spatiotemporal changes in health insurance coverage, healthcare access, and reasons for non-insurance among racial/ethnic minority populations in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic using four national survey datasets ...
Lauren Freelander, David S. Rickless, Corey Anderson, Frank Curriero, Sarah Rockhill, Amir Mirsajedin, Caleb J. Colón, Jasmine Lusane, Alexander Vigo-Valentín, David Wong   +9 more
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Challenges facing the United States of America in implementing universal coverage

Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2014
In 2010, immediately before the United States of America (USA) implemented key features of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), 18% of its residents younger than 65 years lacked health insurance.
Thomas Rice, Lynn Y Unruh, Pauline Rosenau, Andrew J Barnes, Richard B Saltman, Ewout van Ginneken   +5 more
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Prevalence and prescribing patterns of oral corticosteroids in the United States, Taiwan, and Denmark, 2009–2018

Clinical and Translational Science, 2023
Oral corticosteroids (OCS) are commonly prescribed for acute, self‐limited conditions, despite studies demonstrating toxicity. Studies evaluating longitudinal OCS prescribing in the general population are scarce and do not compare use across countries ...
Beth I. Wallace, Hui‐Ju Tsai, Paul Lin, Kristian Aasbjerg, Ann Chen Wu, Yi‐Fen Tsai, Christian Torp‐Pedersen, Akbar K. Waljee, Tsung‐Chieh Yao   +8 more
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High out‑of‑pocket spending and financial hardship at the end of life among cancer survivors and their families

Israel Journal of Health Policy Research, 2023
Cancer is one of the most expensive medical conditions to treat worldwide, affecting national and local spending, as well as household budgets for patients and their families.
Jingxuan Zhao, K. Robin Yabroff
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Disease burden of prostate cancer from 2014 to 2019 in the United States: estimation from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 and Medical Expenditure Panel Survey [PDF]

Epidemiology and Health, 2023
OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to evaluate the disease burden of prostate cancer (PC) and assess key influencing factors associated with the disease expenditures of PC in the United States.
Shen Lin, Dong Lin, Yiyuan Li, Lixian Zhong, Wei Zhou, Yajing Wu, Chen Xie, Shaohong Luo, Xiaoting Huang, Xiongwei Xu, Xiuhua Weng   +10 more
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