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Does the operations of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) in Ghana align with the goals of primary health care? Perspectives of key stakeholders in northern Ghana [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
In 2005, the World Health Assembly (WHA) of the World Health Organization (WHO) urged member states to aim at achieving affordable universal coverage and access to key promotive, preventive, curative, rehabilitative and palliative health interventions ...
Akazili, James   +4 more
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Policy analysis of the Universal Public Health Insurance program for Afghan refugees in Iran: a protocol study

open access: yesJournal of Health, Population and Nutrition
Background Given the recent global events leading to the migration of millions of people to various countries, this study seeks to identify the weaknesses and challenges in refugees’ access to healthcare services and propose solutions to reduce the ...
Sahar Amuzadeh-Araei   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

An Analysis of Universal Health Insurance coverage development in the selected countries with social insurance approach to health

open access: yesمدیریت اطلاعات سلامت, 2013
Access to health care is a fundamental right of people in communities. Universal health insurance coverage by reducing financial barriers to access to health services is one of the important strategies.
Ahmad Reza Raeisi   +2 more
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Rejoinder: Matched Pairs and the Future of Cluster-Randomized Experiments [PDF]

open access: yes, 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

Problems of health insurance coverage and health care in the United States: public and private solution strategies Problemas de cobertura de seguridade em saúde e serviços nos Estados Unidos da América: estratégias para soluções públicas e privadas

open access: yesCadernos de Saúde Pública, 1992
A nearly universal consensus has developed in the United States that the current health care financing system is a failure. The system has been unable to control the continuing rapid rise in health care costs (by far, the highest in the world), and it ...
E. Richard Brown
doaj   +1 more source

Financing health care in high-income countries [PDF]

open access: yes
The main lesson from the experience of high-income countries with health care financing is a simple one: financing reforms should support the ultimate goal of universal coverage. Most high-income countries started with voluntary health insurance systems,
G. Schieber   +2 more
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Health insurance : use of health care services by the poor efficiency and equity issues in the province of Kon Tum [PDF]

open access: yes
The study merged two databases: the database on patients'visits collected for claim control and reimbursement purpose and, the database on the insured that is used to issue the health insurance cards.
Castel, Paulette
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Do Individual Mandates Matter? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Outlines the reasons why achieving universal health insurance coverage requires an individual mandate, and why individual mandate proposals must address the affordability of adequate coverage and develop fair and effective ways to enforce the ...
John Holahan, Linda J. Blumberg
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Comment: The Essential Role of Pair Matching

open access: yes, 2009
Comment on "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-STS274A the Statistical ...
Hill, Jennifer, Scott, Marc
core   +1 more source

The Freedom to Spend Your Own Money on Medical Care: A Common Casualty of Universal Coverage [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Most people would agree that a patient should always be able to spend his own money on the health care services he desires. Yet that freedom is often threatened or denied when government tries to provide universal health insurance coverage, as in the U.S.
Kent Masterson Brown
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