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Frontiers in Digital Health, 2022 BackgroundIncreasing global commitment to Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in the past decade has triggered UHC-inspired reforms and investments to expand health service coverage in many Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs).
Okey Okuzu +8 more
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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 +3 more
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The USA medical insurance as a stimulating factor to increase labour efficiency [PDF]
Health Economics and Management Review, 2023 Medical insurance is critical for state labour efficiency. In many countries (including in the United States of America), it is tightly connected to labour, which makes workers have valid insurance policies for free and constant access to medical aid ...
Vitaliia Koibichuk +2 more
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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 +5 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 +5 more
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PLoS ONE, 2017 ObjectivesNational health insurance is now common in most developed countries. This study reviews the evidence and synthesizes the cost-effectiveness information for national health insurance or disability insurance programs across high-income countries ...
Son Nghiem +3 more
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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 +8 more
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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 +9 more
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On the Outskirts of National Health Reform: A Comparative Assessment of Health Insurance and Access to Care in Puerto Rico and the United States [PDF]
The Milbank Quarterly, 2015 Policy Points: Puerto Rico is the United States’ largest territory, home to nearly 4 million American citizens, yet it has remained largely on the outskirts of US health policy, including the Affordable Care Act (ACA). We analyzed national survey data from 2011 to 2012 and found that despite its far poorer population, Puerto Rico outperforms the ...
Portela, Maria, Sommers, Benjamin
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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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