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Does supplemental private health insurance impact health care utilization and seeking behavior of residents covered by social health insurance? Evidence from China National Health Services Survey
BackgroundSupplemental private health insurance (PHI) plays a crucial role in complementing China’s social health insurance (SHI). However, the...
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Social Health Protection and Publicly Funded Health Insurance Schemes in India: The Right Way Forward?
This paper presents an assessment of publicly funded health insurance (PFHI) schemes as a measure of social health protection (SHP) in the country....
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Health Care Justice: The Social Insurance Approach
There are four basic models for health care systems: the private market insurance model, the national single-payer model, the national health service...
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Inequalities in women’s health insurance coverage before and after the implementation of universal health insurance in Indonesia
Indonesia implemented a National Social Security System (Jaminan Kesehatan Nasional, JKN) in 2014. To examine the changes in the magnitude of...
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Does health insurance mitigate the economic impact of negative health outcomes? Evidence from Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme
In many develo** countries, financial risk protection for health is under-developed and negative health outcomes can be impoverishing. In this...
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Towards universal health coverage in Vietnam: a mixed-method case study of enrolling people with tuberculosis into social health insurance
BackgroundVietnam’s primary mechanism of achieving sustainable funding for universal health coverage (UHC) and financial protection has been through...
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Effect of social capital on enrolment of informal sector occupational groups in the national health insurance scheme in Ghana: a cross-sectional survey
BackgroundEnrolment of informal sector workers in Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) is critical to achieving increased risk-pooling and...
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Laos’ Social Health Insurance (SHI) program’s impact on older people’s accessibility and financial security against catastrophic health expense
Laos has introduced various SHI schemes for multiple groups of the population, such as government officials and other population groups under the NHI...
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The impact of health insurance enrollment on health outcomes in Kenya
BackgroundThe achievement of the global agenda on universal health coverage (UHC) is pivotal in ensuring healthy lives and promoting the well-being...
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Network analysis of Iranian's health insurance ecosystem before and after the introduction of Universal Health Insurance law
IntroductionThe policy-making process in health reform is challenging due to the complexity of organizations, overlap** roles, and diversity of...
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Changes in health care utilization and financial protection after integration of the rural and urban social health insurance schemes in Bei**g, China
BackgroundChina expanded health coverage to residents in informal economic sectors by the rural new cooperative medical scheme (NCMS) for rural...
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Medical/Health Insurance in Develo** Countries
This chapter provides an overview of medical/health insurance in develo** countries, focusing on the challenges, strategies, and recommendations to...
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Social risks and social needs in a health insurance exchange sample: a longitudinal evaluation of utilization
BackgroundHealth systems are increasingly attempting to intervene on social adversity as a strategy to improve health care outcomes. To inform health...
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Social Insurance Literacy Among the Sick-listed—A Study of Clients’ Comprehension and Self-Rated System Comprehensibility of the Sickness Insurance System
IntroductionSickness insurance systems and their processes have been studied in terms of transparency, comprehensibility and fairness, highlighting...
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Factors affecting health insurance utilization among insured population: evidence from health insurance program of Bhaktapur district of Nepal
BackgroundThe Government of Nepal introduced the family-based health insurance program in 2016 to increase financial protection and improve access to...
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Public Health Insurance: Reducing Poverty or Access to Equitable Health Care?
Tax-financed public health insurance programs are a newer, but increasingly important form of social policy across develo** countries, including...
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Can commercial health insurance improve family happiness?
This paper evaluates the happiness benefits of commercial health insurance in China’s multi-level medical security system using a treatment effect...
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Determinants of health insurance coverage among women in Mauritania: a multilevel analysis
BackgroundHealth insurance has been documented as one of the primary methods of financing healthcare for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by...
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Inequalities in unmet health care needs under universal health insurance coverage in China
BackgroundExpanding health insurance is a critical step towards universal health coverage due to its positive effect on reducing unmet health care...
