The National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) is a major national household survey conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) to monitor the health of the U.S. civilian noninstitutionalized population. The NHIS is redesigned following each decennial census to achieve new survey requirements and reflect changes in the distribution of the U.S. population. The current (in use sinc...

OBJECTIVES This report details the National Center for Health Statistics' (NCHS) development of the 2006 NCHS Urban-Rural Classification Scheme for Counties and provides some examples of how the scheme can be used to describe differences in health measures by urbanization level. METHODS The 2006 NCHS urban-rural classification scheme classifies all U.S. counties and county-equivalents into si...

The 1994-1995 National Health Interview Survey on Disability (NHIS-D) has been one of the most unique and important data sources for studying disability, impairment, and health in the United States. In celebration of the NHIS-D's twenty-year anniversary, we created an extensive bibliography (n=212) of research that has used these data.

OBJECTIVES This report details development of the 2013 National Center for Health Statistics' (NCHS) Urban-Rural Classification Scheme for Counties (update of the 2006 NCHS scheme) and applies it to health measures to demonstrate urban-rural health differences. METHODS The methodology used to construct the 2013 NCHS scheme was the same as that used for the 2006 NCHS scheme, but 2010 census-ba...

BACKGROUND One of the main objectives of the Ghana National Health Insurance Scheme, at its establishment in 2003, was to ease financial burden of the full cost recovery policy, particularly on the poor. However, currently, majority of the scheme's subscribers are individuals in the upper wealth quintile, as the poor in society rather have not subscribed. We explored the motivational factors as...

OBJECTIVE A national priority for disability research in the USA is the standardised identification of people with disabilities in surveillance efforts. Mandated by federal statute, six dichotomous difficulty-focused questions were implemented in national surveys to identify people with disabilities. The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence, demographic characteristics and social fact...

Introduction Coverage of childhood cancer treatment under the Ghanaian National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) has been a policy discussion recently. To improve priority setting, Ghana introduced and used health technology assessment (HTA) processes to guide resource allocation. understand role stakeholders throughout HTA lifecycle for this decision, stakeholder mapping engagement was undertake...

Background: South Korea adopt a mandatory national health care system covering all citizens and consisting of the National Health Insurance System (NHIS) Medical Aid Program (MAP), which cover individuals non-low low Socioeconomic Status (SES), respectively. Objective: We investigated compared medical expenses per claim in for SES individuals, to predict expenditure provide fundamental data reg...