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Health Insurance for Cancer Care in Asia: Thailand

Asia-Pacific Journal of Oncology Nursing, 2016
Thailand has a universal multi-payer system with two main types of health insurance: National Health Security Office or public health insurance and private insurance.
Pongpak Pittayapan
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TRIANGLE ANALYSIS OF HEALTH INSURANCE PUBLIC POLICY: A CASE STUDY ON THE INFORMAL SECTOR IN INDONESIA [PDF]

Jurnal Ilmu Kesehatan Masyarakat, 2017
Background: The proportion of informal sector dominates the labour force in Indonesia. Yet, their presence has not been fully covered in the national health insurance system. Health insurance policy in Indonesia continues to change.
Haerawati Idris
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Health Insurance and Out-Of-Pocket Expenditure on Health and Medicine: Heterogeneities along Income

Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2021
Background: Achieving universal health coverage is an important objective enshrined in the 2015 global Sustainable Development Goals. However, the rising cost of healthcare remains an obstacle to the attainment of the universal health coverage.
Mohammed Khaled Al-Hanawi, Martin Limbikani Mwale, Ameerah M. N. Qattan   +2 more
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Childhood cancer survival disparities in a universalized health system in Cali, Colombia

Pediatric Hematology Oncology Journal, 2018
Universal healthcare has been proposed as a strategy to achieve health equity. Herein, we describe childhood cancer survival disparities within a universal healthcare system in Cali, the third largest city in Colombia. We prospectively included data from
Oscar Ramirez, Paula Aristizabal, Alia Zaidi, Anne Gagnepain-Lacheteau, Raul C. Ribeiro, Luis E. Bravo   +5 more
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Demographic and economic correlates of health security in West Sumatra province - Indonesia

Heliyon, 2023
Objectives: Access to health insurances could indicate the degree of health security among communities. Indonesia made a commitment to attain universal health insurance coverage by the end of 2019. However, until today it has not reached the goal of 100%
Ninuk Hariyani, Dessi Febriyanti, Marpaleni, Judith Wigati Darmastuti, Suha Mudhish Abduljalil Ahmed, Kaushik Sengupta   +5 more
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Framework for developing cost-effectiveness analysis threshold: the case of Egypt

Journal of the Egyptian Public Health Association
Background Cost-effectiveness analyses rarely offer useful insights to policy decisions unless their results are compared against a benchmark threshold. The cost-effectiveness threshold (CET) represents the maximum acceptable monetary value for achieving
Ahmad N. Fasseeh, Nada Korra, Baher Elezbawy, Amal S. Sedrak, Mary Gamal, Randa Eldessouki, Mariam Eldebeiky, Mohsen George, Ahmed Seyam, Asmaa Abourawash, Ahmed Y. Khalifa, Mayada Shaheen, Sherif Abaza, Zoltán Kaló   +13 more
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Participatory and responsive governance in universal health coverage: an analysis of legislative provisions in Thailand

BMJ Global Health, 2021
Participatory and responsive governance in universal health coverage (UHC) systems synergistically ensure the needs of citizens are protected and met. In Thailand, UHC constitutes of three public insurance schemes: Civil Servant Medical Benefit Scheme ...
Walaiporn Patcharanarumol, Viroj Tangcharoensathien, Aniqa Islam Marshall, Kanang Kantamaturapoj, Kamonwan Kiewnin, Somtanuek Chotchoungchatchai   +5 more
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Paving Way Towards Universal Health Coverage: Health Insurance, Priority Setting and Packaging Safety Nets in Nepal

Journal of Karnali Academy of Health Sciences, 2023
Universal Health Coverage (UHC) is instrumental for achieving sustainable development goals (SDGs) and its agenda of leaving no one behind (LNOB).
Ambika Thapa Pachya, Uttam Pachya, Kapil Amgain, Madan Kumar Upadhyaya, Krishna Kumar Aryal   +4 more
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Sustainable financing for vaccination towards advancing universal health coverage in the WHO African region: The strategic role of national health insurance

Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics
There is a growing political interest in health reforms in Africa, and many countries are choosing national health insurance as their main financing mechanism for universal health coverage.
Abdu A. Adamu, Rabiu I. Jalo, Ibrahim D. Muhammad, Téné-Alima Essoh, Duduzile Ndwandwe, Charles S. Wiysonge   +5 more
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Political Economy of Reform under US Federalism: Adopting Single-Payer Health Coverage in New York State

Health Systems & Reform, 2019
The US remains the only high-income country that lacks a universal health financing system and instead relies on a fragmented system with the largest segment of the population receiving health insurance through private, voluntary employer-sponsored ...
Ashley M. Fox, Yongjin Choi
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