UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE AND ENFORCED BENEFICENCE

Universal bilirubin screening and health care utilization.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the impact of the implementation of universal bilirubin screening on neonatal health care use in the context of a large jurisdiction with universal health insurance. METHODS We conducted a population-based retrospective cohort study of all newborns discharged after birth between April 2003 and February 2011 from 42 hospitals that implemented universal bilirubin screening...

Abortion rates and universal health care.

Canadian health care is not universal.

Melanie Slavitch, Ottawa C anadian health care was front and centre in the minds of the American media this month. Unfortunately, it was not because the new Democratic Party government of Barack Obama was going to adopt some of the ideas and principles behind our so-called uniform and unified medical coverage. Rather, we were in the spotlight for the management of surgical trauma. The actress N...

Universal health care coverage in Korea.

Against simple universal health-care identifiers.

Medical records are becoming fully computerized; technical, administrative and economic forces are pushing toward standardization on a single identifier, such as the Social Security Number (SSN) to index all records; consequently, the privacy and security of our medical histories will be severely compromised. We argue that there are sensible and effective technological means available to reduce...