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The Challenges of Universal Health Insurance in Developing Countries: Experimental Evidence from Indonesia's National Health Insurance

, 2021
To investigate barriers to universal health insurance in developing countries, we designed a randomized experiment involving about 6,000 households in Indonesia who are subject to a government health insurance program with a weakly enforced mandate. Time-
A. Banerjee, Amy N. Finkelstein, Rema Hanna, B. Olken, A. Ornaghi, S. Sumarto   +5 more
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Public views of health insurance in Japan during the era of attaining universal health coverage: a secondary analysis of an opinion poll on health insurance in 1967

Journal of Public Health Research, 2017
While Japan’s success in achieving universal health insurance over a short period with controlled healthcare costs has been studied from various perspectives, that of beneficiaries have been overlooked.
Ikuma Nozaki, Koji Wada, Osamu Utsunomiya   +2 more
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Impact of community-based health insurance on health services utilisation among vulnerable households in Amhara region, Ethiopia

BMC Health Services Research, 2023
Background Ethiopia piloted community-based health insurance in 2011, and as of 2019, the programme was operating in 770 districts nationwide, covering approximately 7 million households.
Essa Chanie Mussa, Tia Palermo, Gustavo Angeles, Martha Kibur, Frank Otchere, Amhara ISNP Evaluation Team   +5 more
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Uptake of health insurance among Muslims in Nairobi county, Kenya

The Pan African Medical Journal, 2017
INTRODUCTION: In Kenya and the world across, health insurance has been reckoned as an important health policy that serves to protect households from the direct financial consequences of health care and meet the Sustainable Development Goal of Universal ...
Mohammed Abdi Hassan, Wanja Mwaura-Tenambergen, Muthoni Mwangi Eunice   +2 more
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Designing a model for universal health insurance coverage in Iran using the balanced scorecard approach [PDF]

International Archives of Health Sciences
Objectives: This study aimed to develop an effective model for achieving universal health insurance coverage in Iran utilizing the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) approach. Methods: This mixed-method study was conducted between 2022 and 2023.
Ghorban Sadeghi Dabanlo, Leila Riahi, Aniseh Nikravan, Abasat Mirzaei   +3 more
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Enhancing financial protection under China’s social health insurance to achieve universal health coverage

British medical journal, 2019
Hai Fang and colleagues highlight the need for better financial protection for poor ...
H. Fang, K. Eggleston, K. Hanson, Ming-Hou Wu   +3 more
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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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Exploring health insurance services in Sudan from the perspectives of insurers

SAGE Open Medicine, 2018
Background: It has been 20 years since the introduction of health insurance in Sudan. This study was the first one that explored health insurance services in Sudan from the perspectives of the insurers.
Anas Mustafa Ahmed Salim, Fatima Hashim Mahmoud Hamed   +1 more
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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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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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