French National Health Insurance Information System for Malaria Surveillance

Health care under French national health insurance.

Several elements of the French health system--the predominance of office-based medical practice, the mix of private and public hospitals, the use of patient cost sharing, direct payment of physicians by patients, and financing derived from payroll taxes--closely resemble aspects of the U.S. health system. There are four major differences between the two systems: the French system covers more th...

Effectiveness of Implementation of Electronic Malaria Information System as the National Malaria Surveillance System in Thailand

BACKGROUND In moving toward malaria elimination, one strategy is to implement an active surveillance system for effective case management. Thailand has developed and implemented the electronic Malaria Information System (eMIS) capturing individualized electronic records of suspected or confirmed malaria cases. OBJECTIVE The main purpose of this study was to determine how well the eMIS improve...

The health care system under French national health insurance: lessons for health reform in the United States.

The French health system combines universal coverage with a public-private mix of hospital and ambulatory care and a higher volume of service provision than in the United States. Although the system is far from perfect, its indicators of health status and consumer satisfaction are high; its expenditures, as a share of gross domestic product, are far lower than in the United States; and patients...

National Health Insurance exposed.

National Health Insurance

Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, and Bureau of Pharmaceutical Affairs, Department of Health, Executive Yuan, Taipei. Received: 16 August 2000. Revised: 8 September 2000. Accepted: 17 October 2000. Reprint requests and correspondence to: Dr. Shan-Chwen Chang, Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Nati...