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Confessions of a Poverty Researcher: My Journey Through the Foothills of Scholarship

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper describes the key events, experiences and ideas that influenced the author's career as a poverty researcher. He describes how his early disillusion with economics was replaced by a spark of interest in social issues and how his migration from the UK to Australia in the mid‐1970s provided the impetus to begin what became a lifetime ...
Peter Saunders
wiley   +1 more source

Roadmaps to managed competition: to what extent does Ireland meet the preconditions for equity and efficiency?

open access: yesHealth Economics, Policy and Law
Ireland has a long-standing voluntary private health insurance market (PHI) which is regulated to meet the public policy objective of achieving risk solidarity to promote affordability of PHI.
John Armstrong
doaj   +1 more source

Health insurance: Principles, models and the Nigerian National Health Insurance Scheme

open access: yesInternational Journal of Medicine and Health Development, 2011
Introduction: The Nigerian National Health Insurance scheme (NHIS) is planned to attract more resources to the health care sector and improve the level of access and utilization of healthcare services.
O E Onwujekwe   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

National Health Insurance Revisited [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper explains why one in seven Americans has no health insurance, and compares the casualty and the social insurance models of health insurance. The paper discusses the relationship among national health insurance (NHI) , the cost of care, and the ...
Victor R. Fuchs
core  

‘Giving Back to Our Community’: The Retention of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Disability Workforce in New South Wales, Australia

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of Australia require culturally responsive services. The Australian government has committed to establishing strategies to increase the size of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander disability workforce; however, there is scant research on the factors influencing retention.
J. Gwynn   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Analysis of the Private Health Insurance Market in Romania [PDF]

open access: yesOvidius University Annals: Economic Sciences Series, 2019
Healthcare in Romania is mainly financed (around 75%) from public resources (government schemes and social compulsory health insurance), just less than 25% of total expenditure on health coming from other sources such as co-payments, informal patient ...
Adina Elena Dănulețiu
doaj  

Health Insurance in Myanmar: The Views and Perception of Healthcare Consumers and Health System Informants on the Establishment of a Nationwide Health Insurance System

open access: yesRisks, 2018
(1) Background: Health insurance and social protection in Myanmar are negligible, which leaves many citizens at risk of financial hardship in case of a serious illness.
Marjolein van Rooijen   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Possible approaches to benchmarking voluntary health insurance funds in Bulgaria [PDF]

open access: yes
Following the adoption of the Health Insurance Law in Bulgaria (1999), which provided the legal framework for the development of the voluntary health insurance, several health insurance funds had been established.
Georgieva, Lydia   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Approaches to canine health surveillance [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Effective canine health surveillance systems can be used to monitor disease in the general population, prioritise disorders for strategic control and focus clinical research, and to evaluate the success of these measures.
Brodbelt, D C   +5 more
core   +2 more sources

Barriers and Enablers for Effective Support Coordination in the National Disability Insurance Scheme

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Support coordinators act as intermediaries between the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) and participants, facilitating access to funded supports. To optimise outcomes, they must navigate NDIS complexities, identify services that meet individual needs and engage with diverse stakeholders.
Sharyn McDonald   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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