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Perceived challenges to achieving universal health coverage: a cross-sectional survey of social health insurance managers/administrators in China

BMJ Open, 2017
Objective China has achieved over 96% health insurance coverage. However, universal health coverage (UHC) entails population coverage and the range of services covered and the extent to which health service costs are covered.
Linghan Shan, Qunhong Wu, Chaojie Liu, Ye Li, Yu Cui, Zi Liang, Yanhua Hao, L. Liang, N. Ning, Ding Ding, Qingxia Pan, Liyuan Han   +11 more
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The Impact of Healthcare Insurance on the Utilisation of Facility-Based Delivery for Childbirth in the Philippines. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2016
In recent years, the government of the Philippines embarked upon an ambitious Universal Health Care program, underpinned by the rapid scale-up of subsidized insurance coverage for poor and vulnerable populations.
Hebe N Gouda, Andrew Hodge, Raoul Bermejo, Willibald Zeck, Eliana Jimenez-Soto   +4 more
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Assessing the Impact of Education on the Uptake of Health Insurance at the Cape Coast Technical University, Ghana

E-Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, 2022
Historically, health financing in Ghana was cash and carry from the 1980s until the year 2005 when National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) started operation.
Ophelia Mensah, Richmond Yeboah
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Voluntary Health Insurance expenditure in low- and middle-income countries: Exploring trends during 1995–2012 and policy implications for progress towards universal health coverage

International Journal for Equity in Health, 2016
BackgroundMost low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) rely significantly on private health expenditure in the form of out-of-pocket payments (OOP) and voluntary health insurance (VHI).
L. Pettigrew, I. Mathauer
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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

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

مدیریت 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, Efat mohamadi, Nooredin menglizadeh   +2 more
doaj  

Policy analysis of the Universal Public Health Insurance program for Afghan refugees in Iran: a protocol study

Journal 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, Amirhossein Takian, Alireza Jabbari   +2 more
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Competing health policies: insurance against universal public systems

Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem, 2016
Objectives: This article analyzes the content and outcome of ongoing health reforms in Latin America: Universal Health Coverage with Health Insurance, and the Universal and Public Health Systems.
Asa Ebba Cristina Laurell
doaj   +1 more source

Examining purchasing reforms towards universal health coverage by the National Hospital Insurance Fund in Kenya

International Journal for Equity in Health, 2020
Background Kenya has prioritized the attainment of universal health coverage (UHC) through the expansion of health insurance coverage by the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF).
Rahab Mbau, E. Kabia, A. Honda, K. Hanson, E. Barasa   +4 more
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Evolution of Government-funded health insurance for universal health coverage in India

The Lancet Regional Health - Southeast Asia, 2023
S. Dubey, Swasti Deshpande, Lokesh Krishna, Siddhesh Zadey   +3 more
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