China's new health plan targets vulnerable

New WHO plan targets the demise of sleeping sickness.

17 so-called neglected tropical diseases have been sitting for decades on the to-do list of WHO. Together they bring physical, social, and economic suff ering to more than 1 billion people, according to WHO. A decade or so ago, WHO and its partners decided to pull these diseases out of the closet and to fi nd the resources needed to fi nish what has too long been unfi nished business. “These di...

Can Plan Recommendations Improve the Coverage Decisions of Vulnerable Populations in Health Insurance Marketplaces?

OBJECTIVE The Affordable Care Act's marketplaces present an important opportunity for expanding coverage but consumers face enormous challenges in navigating through enrollment and re-enrollment. We tested the effectiveness of a behaviorally informed policy tool--plan recommendations--in improving marketplace decisions. STUDY SETTING Data were gathered from a community sample of 656 lower-inc...

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Beneficiaries' Perceptions of New Medicare Health Plan Choice Print Materials

This article presents findings from a study involving seven focus groups with aged and disabled Medicare beneficiaries in the Kansas City area regarding their impressions of a pilot version of the Medicare & You 1999 handbook and the Medicare Consumer Assessment of Health Plans Study (CAHPS) survey report. Beneficiaries generally had positive reactions to both booklets and viewed the handbook a...

Health Insurance and Vulnerable Populations

Our charge is to consider the causes of lack of insurance coverage for vulnerable populations. This is a daunting task for many reasons-not least because there are as many kinds of vulnerability as there are bad things that happen to human bodies or to human life. Although the term " vulnerable population " conjures images of a discrete and insular minority, every person's vulnerability to illn...