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

Australian 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
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Reform and Transitional Adjustment of the Health Care System in Slovenia [PDF]

Zbornik radova Ekonomskog fakulteta u Rijeci : časopis za ekonomsku teoriju i praksu, 2005
In the paper the authors analyse some unresolved issues regarding the health care reform that is under way in the Republic of Slovenia. They believe the reform is necessary due to the problems that have accumulated.
Petra Došenović, Maks Tajnikar
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The development of voluntary private health insurance in the Nordic countries

Nordic Journal of Health Economics, 2016
The Nordic countries represent an institutional setting with tax-based health care financing and universal access to health care services. Very few health care services are excluded from what are offered within the publically financed health care system.
Nina Alexandersen, Anders Anell, Oddvar Kaarboe, Juhani S Lehto, Liina-Kaisa Tynkkynen, Karsten Vrangbaek   +5 more
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‘Giving Back to Our Community’: The Retention of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Disability Workforce in New South Wales, Australia

Australian 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, J. Gilroy, S. Peter, F. Talbot, K. Bulkeley, C. Alcorso, K. Gwynne, B. Rambaldini, A. Haines, M. Lincoln   +9 more
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Associations of lack of voluntary private insurance and out-of-pocket expenditures with health inequalities. Evidence from an international longitudinal survey in countries with universal health coverage.

PLoS ONE, 2018
ObjectivesIn countries with universal health coverage (UHC), national public health insurances cover 70% of health expenditures on average, but health care user fees and out-of-pocket expenditures have been neglected in empirical patient-centered health ...
Stéphanie Baggio, Marc Dupuis, Hans Wolff, Patrick Bodenmann   +3 more
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Voluntary Health Insurance on the National Scene. The Present Status of Voluntary Health Insurance

American Journal of Public Health and the Nations Health, 1950
AFEW years ago, a discussion of health insurance would have started with a statement as to the unpredictable nature of illness, the uneven distribution of medical costs among families, and the consequent need for insurance against unexpected medical bills. Today, there is little, if any, need for going into these " why's " of health insurance. Both the
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Dr. Hans Kohn and the political takeover of the Berlin Medical Society by the National Socialist regime in 1933

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract To solidify their power over society, totalitarian regimes will usually eliminate any dissent, any perceived threats early on. These threats include not only political enemies but also educated and independent segments of society, such as professional associations.
Michael Hortsch
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Roadmaps to managed competition: to what extent does Ireland meet the preconditions for equity and efficiency?

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

International 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, B S Uzochukwu, O P Ezeoke, N P Uguru   +3 more
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Efficacy and Safety of Subcutaneous Anifrolumab in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: the Randomized, Phase 3, TULIP‐SC Study

Arthritis &Rheumatology, Accepted Article.
Objective The multinational, phase 3, double‐blind, placebo‐controlled TULIP‐SC trial evaluated the efficacy and safety of subcutaneous anifrolumab in adults who have moderate‐to‐severe SLE activity, despite receiving standard therapy. Methods Adults with SLE received subcutaneous anifrolumab 120 mg or placebo once weekly for 52 weeks (1:1 ...
Susan Manzi, Ian N. Bruce, Eric F. Morand, Richard Furie, Yoshiya Tanaka, Kenneth C. Kalunian, Anca Askanase, Patricia Puzio, Emon Khan, Jenny Wissmar, Michael Song, Catharina Lindholm, The TULIP‐SC investigators   +12 more
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