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Health care utilisation amongst Shenzhen migrant workers: does being insured make a difference?

BMC Health Services Research, 2009
Background As one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the Pearl River Delta of South China, Shenzhen attracts millions of migrant workers annually.
Jiang Hanping, Zhang Dan, Cheng Jinquan, Mou Jin, Lin Liangqiang, Griffiths Sian M   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Differences in Breast Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment:Experiences of Insured and Uninsured Patients in a Safety Net Setting [PDF]

To explore how well the safety net performs at eliminating differences in diagnosis and treatment of insured and uninsured women with breast cancer, we compared insured and uninsured women treated in a safety net setting.
Lisa M. Shickle, David Neumark, Nicholas Farrell, Cathy J. Bradley   +3 more
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What Do People Buy When They Don't Buy Health Insurance And What Does that Say about Why They are Uninsured? [PDF]

Using data from the 1994 through 1998 Consumer Expenditure Surveys, we compare household spending on 16 different goods (food at home, food away from home, housing, transportation, alcohol and tobacco, interest, furniture and appliances, home maintenance,
Thomas DeLeire, Helen Levy
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Multi‐omics–driven precision medicine

iMeta, EarlyView.
Multi‐omics‐driven precision medicine (MODPM) provides a multiscale, continuously learnable framework that integrates genomics, epigenomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, microbiome profiles, and clinical data. Powered by artificial intelligence and foundation models, MODPM enables cross‐modal representation learning, contextual modeling ...
Huibo Li, Zhe Zhao, Yifan Zhang, Yao Ma, Gaofei Hu, Min Zeng, Zhanqun Yang, Zixuan Zhao, Xin Zhou, Wei Hu, Yuxuan Sun, Meng Su, Jun Li, Matthew Whiteman, Wei Fu, Chao Zhong, Lemin Zheng, Long Chen, Hairong Lv, Rongsheng Zhao, Yi Zhun Zhu   +20 more
wiley   +1 more source

Uninsured Motorists’ Risk Attitudes and Pedestrian Road Safety: Evidence from Metropolitan Lagos, Nigeria

Journal of International Business, Economics and Entrepreneurship
With the increasing prevalence of uninsured vehicles in urban areas, motorists’ behaviours on pedestrian safety are crucial for developing effective road safety strategies.
Sunday Stephen Ajemunigbohun, Kudirat Adeola Banjo, Taiwo Olarinre Oluwaleye   +2 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Uninsured countercyclical risk: an aggregation result and@application to optimal monetary policy [PDF]

We consider an incomplete markets economy with capital accumulation and endogenous labor supply. Individuals face countercyclical idiosyncratic labor and asset risk. We derive conditions under which the aggregate allocations and price system can be found
Tomoyuki Nakajima, Richard Anton Braun
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Covering the Uninsured in the U.S. [PDF]

One of the major social policy issues facing the U.S. in the first decade of the 21st century is the large number of Americans lacking health insurance. This article surveys the major economic issues around covering the uninsured.
Jonathan Gruber
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Deniers and Compliers: Unpacking the Heterogeneous Effectiveness of U.S. Stay‐at‐Home Mandates During the COVID‐19 Pandemic

Journal of Applied Econometrics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While existing work shows COVID‐19 stay‐at‐home (SAH) policies decreased mobility on average, we lack evidence regarding heterogeneity in policy effectiveness across US counties. To uncover potential heterogeneity, we implement a novel two‐stage approach.
James Sears, Sofia B. Villas‐Boas, Molly Sears, Carly Trachtman, Linlin Fan, Andrew W. Stevens   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The shared experiences of insured members and the uninsured in health care access and utilization under Ghana's national health insurance scheme: Evidence from the Hohoe Municipality.

PLoS ONE, 2020
BackgroundThe National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) was introduced in Ghana in 2003 to remove financial barriers and to promote equitable access to health care services.
Suraiya Umar, Adam Fusheini, Martin Amogre Ayanore   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The dependence of health insurance availability on years left before Medicare [PDF]

We study the dependence of health insurance availability of near-elderly inpatients in the United States with respect to their ages. We show that the likelihood that near-elderly inpatients are uninsured continuously declines until the early ages of 60 ...
Ismail Saglam, Esra Eren Bayindir, Mehmet Yigit Gurdal   +2 more
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