Morbidity and hospitalization costs of chronic diseases for the Unified National Health System

The Future of Ageing and Its Health Care Costs: A Warning for Health System

This article is focused on ageing and the rapid ageing population growth, from future health care costs prospectus. It reviews ageing population statistics in several courtiers as well as Iran, to illustrate the significance of the ageing population growth in the next decades. Nevertheless, the health care costs for elderly people are described and the considerable differences between health ca...

Title:lifestyle, Chronic Diseases and Self-rated Health among Malaysian Adults: Results from the 2011 National Health and Morbidity Survey (nhms)

Lifestyle, chronic diseases and self-rated health among Malaysian adults: results from the 2011 National Health and Morbidity Survey (NHMS)

BACKGROUND Self-rated health (SRH) has been demonstrated as a valid and appropriate predictor of incident mortality and chronic morbidity. Associations between lifestyle, chronic diseases, and SRH have been reported by various population studies but few have included data from developing countries. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of poor SRH in Malaysia and its association...

The future of the Brazilian Unified National Health System.

[The Unified National Health System, 20 years: assessment and perspectives].

This article reviews the strides and challenges of the Brazilian Unified National Health System (SUS), based on an assessment of the results achieved and the constraints for effective consolidation of it objectives. The article focuses on three issues: the process of implementing the SUS, highlighting the institutional and political constraints, some of which as effects of previous policies; st...