National Health Insurance unpacked: Part 1

National Health Insurance exposed.

Towards a national health insurance system in Yemen Part 1: Background and assessments

Since the unification and the economic crises of the early 1990s, health spending had declined dramatically with consequent deterioration of the state guaranteed services. Widespread poverty is exacerbated by the side effects of the structural adjustment programmes adopted by the government. Today, Yemen’s health situation is one of the least favourable in the world, and more than half of the Y...

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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...

National Health Insurance Notes

As I promised in my last notes to discuss the question of over-prescribing, I must now briefly consider this difficult problem-for problem it is to every insurance practitioner who endeavours to satisfy patients and at the same time spend his drug allowance economically. The chief cause of the high cost on the Drug Fund is to be found in the Belfast inhabitants' love for a bottle of medicine. I...

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To the .majority of people interest in Social Insurance begins and ends in stamping cards for their employees, and that interest does not appear to be sufficiently enterprising or inquisitive to examine into the objects for which the cards are stamped or into the causes which make the stamping a necessity. I am aware that the members of the Statistical Society give consideration to such importa...