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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
doaj   +1 more source

Ghana’s Journey towards Universal Health Coverage: The Role of the National Health Insurance Scheme

European Journal of Investigation in Health, Psychology and Education, 2019
Background: the main aim of the study is to find if the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) in Ghana is achieving universal health coverage (UHC) or not. The study gives the trajectories of health policies in Ghana and their implications on long term
D. D. Kipo-Sunyehzi, M. Ayanore, D. Dzidzonu, Yakubu AyalsumaYakubu   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

Addressing inequity in health and health care in Mexico.

, 2002
Despite the fact that life expectancy at birth in Mexico has improved from forty-two years in 1940 to seventy-three in 2000, major inequalities persist in health and access to health care.
Barraza-Lloréns, Mariana, Bertozzi, Stefano, González-Pier, Eduardo, Gutiérrez, Juan Pablo   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Hospital utilization and out of pocket expenditure in public and private sectors under the universal government health insurance scheme in Chhattisgarh State, India: Lessons for universal health coverage

PLoS ONE, 2017
Research on impact of publicly financed health insurance has paid relatively little attention to the nature of healthcare provision the schemes engage. India’s National Health Insurance Scheme or RSBY was made universal by Chhattisgarh State in 2012.
Sulakshana Nandi, H. Schneider, P. Dixit
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Rejoinder: Matched Pairs and the Future of Cluster-Randomized Experiments [PDF]

, 2009
Rejoinder to "The Essential Role of Pair Matching in Cluster-Randomized Experiments, with Application to the Mexican Universal Health Insurance Evaluation" [arXiv:0910.3752]Comment: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/09-STS274REJ the Statistical
Imai, Kosuke, King, Gary, Nall, Clayton
core   +3 more sources

Is Indonesia achieving universal health coverage? Secondary analysis of national data on insurance coverage, health spending and service availability

BMJ Open, 2021
Objectives To analyse the relationship between health need, insurance coverage, health service availability, service use, insurance claims and out-of-pocket spending on health across Indonesia.
Agnes Bhakti Pratiwi, Hermawati Setiyaningsih, M. Kok, T. Hoekstra, Ali Ghufron Mukti, E. Pisani   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Healthcare financing in Egypt: a systematic literature review.

Journal of the Egyptian Public Health Association, 2022
Background The Egyptian healthcare system has multiple stakeholders, including a wide range of public and private healthcare providers and several financing agents.
Ahmad Fasseeh, Baher ElEzbawy, Wessam Adly, Rawda ElShahawy, Mohsen George, Sherif Abaza, Amr ElShalakani, Zoltán Kaló   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source