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Social Insurance for Long-term Care. [PDF]

open access: yesJ Popul Ageing, 2022
The issue of how best to finance long-term care (LTC) is the subject of recent reforms, forthcoming reforms or continuing debate in various countries and remains as relevant and challenging as ever.
Karagiannidou M, Wittenberg R.
europepmc   +2 more sources

The impact of social insurance on health among middle-aged and older adults in rural China: a longitudinal study using a three-wave nationwide survey. [PDF]

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2020
Many studies have examined the impact of social insurance on health, but the results have generally been mixed, presumably because they have not fully addressed potential biases related to the study’s cross-sectional design. In this study, we conducted a
Ma X, Oshio T.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Social Insurance and the Marriage Market

open access: yesJournal of Political Economy, 2020
Social insurance is often linked to marriage. Existing evidence suggests small marital responses to financial incentives and stems from settings where benefits are realized in the near future. I analyze how linking survivors insurance to marriage affects
Petra Persson
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Subsidy Design in Privately Provided Social Insurance: Lessons from Medicare Part D. [PDF]

open access: yesJ Polit Econ, 2020
The efficiency of publicly subsidized, privately provisioned social insurance programs depends on the interaction between strategic insurers and the subsidy mechanism.
Decarolis F, Polyakova M, Ryan SP.
europepmc   +2 more sources

The Welfare State with Private Alternatives: The Transformation of Popular Support for Social Insurance

open access: yesJournal of Politics, 2020
Private alternatives to the public provision of welfare state services and benefits have expanded in almost all OECD countries over the past decades. In this paper, we study how this change affects patterns of public support for the welfare state and, in
Marius R. Busemeyer, T. Iversen
semanticscholar   +1 more source

COVID-19 mimics endemic tropical diseases at an early stage: a report of two symptomatic COVID-19 patients treated in a Polymerase chain reaction void zone in Cameroon

open access: yesThe Pan African Medical Journal, 2020
At the end of December 2019, they emerged a new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), triggering a pandemic of an acute respiratory syndrome (COVID-19) in humans.
Franklin Mogo Kom   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Identifying labour market pathways after a 30-day-long sickness absence –a three-year sequence analysis study in Finland

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2023
Background Return-to-work (RTW) process often includes many phases. Still, multi-state analyses that follow relevant labour market states after a long-term sickness absence (LTSA), and include a comprehensive set of covariates, are scarce.
Riku Perhoniemi   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Unemployed and disabled for work: identifying 3-year labour market pathways from the beginning of a sickness absence using sequence and cluster analyses in a register-based longitudinal study in Finland

open access: yesBMJ Open, 2023
Objectives This study followed the labour market pathways of unemployed persons who started a sickness absence (SA) spell. We aimed to unravel subgroups based on altering labour market states and to identify covariates of these subgroups.Design Register ...
Mikko Laaksonen   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Social health insurance reexamined [PDF]

open access: yesHealth Economics, 2009
AbstractSocial health insurance (SHI) is enjoying something of a revival in parts of the developing world. Many countries that have in the past relied largely on tax finance (and out‐of‐pocket payments) have introduced SHI, or are thinking about doing so.
openaire   +3 more sources

Use of outpatient and inpatient health care services by occupation—a register study of employees in Oulu, Finland

open access: yesBMC Health Services Research, 2022
Background The aim of this study was to examine how the use of outpatient and inpatient health services differs by occupational groups, and whether the differences are explained by sociodemographic factors and health status.
Hanna Rinne   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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