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Flexible Sensor‐Based Human–Machine Interfaces with AI Integration for Medical Robotics

open access: yesAdvanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This review explores how flexible sensing technology and artificial intelligence (AI) significantly enhance human–machine interfaces in medical robotics. It highlights key sensing mechanisms, AI‐driven advancements, and applications in prosthetics, exoskeletons, and surgical robotics.
Yuxiao Wang   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Understanding variations in health insurance coverage in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, and Tanzania: Evidence from demographic and health surveys. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2018
BACKGROUND:Realisation of universal health coverage is not possible without health financing systems that ensure financial risk protection. To ensure this, some African countries have instituted health insurance schemes as venues for ensuring universal ...
Hubert Amu   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Development of the Kisiizi hospital health insurance scheme: lessons learned and implications for universal health coverage

open access: yesBMC Health Services Research, 2018
BackgroundKisiizi Hospital Health Insurance scheme started in 1996 to; improve access to health services, and provide a stable source of funding and reduce bad debts to Kisiizi hospital.
S. Baine, A. Kakama, Moses Mugume
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Temperature and Farm Labor in Nigeria

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We estimate the impact of temperature shocks on the composition of farm labor in rural Nigeria using a nationally representative household panel survey. Leveraging plausibly exogenous year‐to‐year variation in growing season temperatures, we find that warmer temperatures significantly alter farm labor composition, prompting a substantial shift
Andu Berha
wiley   +1 more source

The Nigeria national health insurance authority act and its implications towards achieving universal health coverage

open access: yesNigerian Postgraduate Medical Journal, 2022
The National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) faced several inherent and systemic drawbacks towards achieving universal health coverage for all Nigerians, and this has led to the signing of the new National Health Insurance Authority Act (NHIA), 2022. This
Tope Michael Ipinnimo   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Markets Mitigate Land‐Use Competition From Energy Crops and Increase Farm Revenues

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Meeting the US Sustainable Aviation Fuel Grand Challenge target of 35 billion gal annually by 2050 will require an estimated 380 million–700 million dry tons of agricultural biomass feedstock. This study evaluates the implications of large‐scale biomass production for land use, crop production, and market outcomes under mature market ...
Daniel G. De La Torre Ugarte   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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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Patient Satisfaction With Medication Pricing in Community Pharmacy Settings: A Cross‐Sectional Study of Individuals With Comorbidities

open access: yesAGING MEDICINE, EarlyView.
The majority of patients in Malaysia purchase medications at community pharmacies for simple medical conditions. One‐fourth of them are not satisfied with the pricing practices at these pharmacies. The majority rely on medical insurance to purchase routine medications.
Amelia Ravindran   +3 more
wiley   +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
doaj  

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

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