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The impact of universal National Health Insurance on population health: the experience of Taiwan. [PDF]

, 2010
BACKGROUND: Taiwan established a system of universal National Health Insurance (NHI) in March, 1995. Today, the NHI covers more than 98% of Taiwan's population and enrollees enjoy almost free access to healthcare with small co-payment by most clinics and
Yi-Wen Tsai, Ken N Kuo, Kuo, Ken N, Huang, Shiuh-Ming, Yu-Tung Huang, McKee, Martin, Huang, Yu-Tung, Martin McKee, Lee, Yue-Chune, Shiuh-Ming Huang, Nolte, Ellen, Ellen Nolte, Lee, YC;Huang, YT;Tsai, YW;Huang, SM;Kuo, KN;McKee, M;Nolte, E, Tsai, Yi-Wen, Yue-Chune Lee   +14 more
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Comparison of rhesus and cynomolgus macaques as an infection model for COVID-19

Nature Communications, 2021
Non-human primates are important animal models for studying SARS-CoV-2 infection. Here, Salguero et al. directly compare rhesus and cynomolgus macaques and show that both species represent COVID-19 disease of mild clinical cases, and provide a lung ...
Francisco J. Salguero, Andrew D. White, Gillian S. Slack, Susan A. Fotheringham, Kevin R. Bewley, Karen E. Gooch, Stephanie Longet, Holly E. Humphries, Robert J. Watson, Laura Hunter, Kathryn A. Ryan, Yper Hall, Laura Sibley, Charlotte Sarfas, Lauren Allen, Marilyn Aram, Emily Brunt, Phillip Brown, Karen R. Buttigieg, Breeze E. Cavell, Rebecca Cobb, Naomi S. Coombes, Alistair Darby, Owen Daykin-Pont, Michael J. Elmore, Isabel Garcia-Dorival, Konstantinos Gkolfinos, Kerry J. Godwin, Jade Gouriet, Rachel Halkerston, Debbie J. Harris, Thomas Hender, Catherine M. K. Ho, Chelsea L. Kennard, Daniel Knott, Stephanie Leung, Vanessa Lucas, Adam Mabbutt, Alexandra L. Morrison, Charlotte Nelson, Didier Ngabo, Jemma Paterson, Elizabeth J. Penn, Steve Pullan, Irene Taylor, Tom Tipton, Stephen Thomas, Julia A. Tree, Carrie Turner, Edith Vamos, Nadina Wand, Nathan R. Wiblin, Sue Charlton, Xiaofeng Dong, Bassam Hallis, Geoffrey Pearson, Emma L. Rayner, Andrew G. Nicholson, Simon G. Funnell, Julian A. Hiscox, Mike J. Dennis, Fergus V. Gleeson, Sally Sharpe, Miles W. Carroll   +63 more
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Integration of Refractive Services Provided by Optometrists into the Portuguese National Health Service

Portuguese Journal of Public Health, 2023
Introduction: Refractive error is a public health concern and even with relatively simple and cost-effective interventions it remains usually outside national health services (NHSs) not ensuring universal health coverage.
Vera L. Alves Carneiro, José Manuel González-Méijome   +1 more
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The National Health Service: Dream and Reality

Acta Médica Portuguesa, 2015
Keywords: Interview; National Health Programs; Portugal.
António Arnaut
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How do managers and leaders in the National Health Service and social care respond to service user involvement in mental health services in both its traditional and emergent forms? The ENSUE study

Health Services and Delivery Research, 2014
Background: This study set out to measure the extent and perceived impact of service user involvement (SUI) in mental health services and to explore different forms of SUI, both collective and individual.
Diana Rose, Marian Barnes, Mike Crawford, Edward Omeni, Dee MacDonald, Aaron Wilson   +5 more
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Choice of contracts in the British National Health Service: An empirical study [PDF]

, 2008
Following major reforms of the British National Health Service (NHS) in 1990, the roles of purchasing and providing health services were separated, with the relationship between purchasers and providers governed by contracts.
McVicar, Duncan; id_orcid, Chalkley, Martin, McVicar, Duncan   +2 more
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Crisis in the National Health Service [PDF]

BMJ, 1987
On 7 December the presidents of the Royal Colleges ofPhysicians, Surgeons, and Obstetricians and Gynaecologists issued the following joint statement Each day we learn of new problems in the NHS?beds are shut, operating rooms are not available, emergency wards ...
R, Hoffenberg, I P, Todd, G, Pinker
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Administrative and legal status of the National Health Service of Ukraine

Вісник Харківського національного університету імені В. Н. Каразіна Серія: «Право», 2023
The article examines the peculiarities and prerequisites of the formation of the administrative and legal status of the National Health Service of Ukraine as a central body of executive power.
Daria Bashynska
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Supporting quality indicators in the UK national health service [PDF]

, 2005
Quality indicators for performance management of the UK National Health Service have been introduced for general practitioners (GPs) in order to monitor if they are meeting their performance targets. Such requirements impose significant load to GPs’
Slevin, L., Dagdeviren, H., H. Dagdeviren, Akram, A., Juric, R., A. Akram, R. Juric, L. Slevin   +7 more
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Severity of heterosubtypic influenza virus infection in ferrets is reduced by live attenuated influenza vaccine

npj Vaccines, 2021
Live attenuated influenza vaccine (LAIV) is widely used to protect humans from seasonal influenza infection, particularly in children. In contrast to inactivated vaccines, the LAIV can induce both mucosal and cellular immune responses.
Anthony C. Marriott, Karen E. Gooch, Phillip J. Brown, Kathryn A. Ryan, Nicola J. Jones, Natasha Merredew, Nathan Wiblin, Oliver Dibben, Helen Bright, Bassam Hallis, Catherine J. Whittaker, Miles W. Carroll   +11 more
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