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The Effect of Health Insurance on Health Care Utilization in the Justice-Involved Population: United States, 2014-2016.

American Journal of Public Health, 2020
Objectives. To examine the impact of health insurance coverage on utilization of outpatient, hospital, and emergency department care among justice-involved individuals in the United States.Methods. We performed repeated cross-sectional analyses with data
Caitlin M Farrell, Aaron Gottlieb
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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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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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Changes in health insurance coverage, access to care, and health services utilization by sexual minority status in the United States, 2013-2018.

Health Services Research, 2020
OBJECTIVE To examine the changes in health insurance coverage, access to care, and health services utilization among nonelderly sexual minority and heterosexual adults between pooled years 2013-2014 and 2017-2018.
G. Gonzales, C. Henning‐Smith, Jesse M. Ehrenfeld   +2 more
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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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Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Access to Health Care Among Adults in the United States: A 20-Year National Health Interview Survey Analysis, 1999–2018

medRxiv, 2020
Importance: Racial and ethnic disparities plague the US health care system despite efforts to eliminate them. To understand what has been achieved amid these efforts, a comprehensive study from the population perspective is needed.
C. Caraballo, D. Massey, S. Mahajan, Yuan Lu, A. Annapureddy, B. Roy, C. Riley, K. Murugiah, J. Valero-Elizondo, O. Onuma, M. Nunez-Smith, H. Forman, K. Nasir, J. Herrin, H. Krumholz   +14 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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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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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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Diabetes risk among US adults with different socioeconomic status and behavioral lifestyles: evidence from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey

Frontiers in Public Health, 2023
Background Diabetes disproportionately affects minorities and those with low socioeconomic status (SES) in the United States, and differences in behavioral lifestyles are largely responsible for the unequal distribution of diabetes among different groups.
Ce Liu, Li He, Yuanfei Li, A. Yang, Kai Zhang, B. Luo   +5 more
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