introduction: neglecting to define important criteria in developing a basic health insurance package and to notice their real roles will result in defining a package which is politically unacceptable, non-economical, technically inefficient or mixed of them. therefore development of basic health insurance package should be according to appropriate composition of influential criteria. this study...

BACKGROUND While the Nigerian government has made progress towards the Millennium Development Goals, further investments are needed to achieve the targets of post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals, including Universal Health Coverage. Economic evaluations of innovative interventions can help inform investment decisions in resource-constrained settings. We aim to assess the cost and cost-effect...

The purpose of this study is to estimate and explain the performance of nonlife (i.e., property and casualty) insurers. The analysis consists of two stages. First, we propose the use of a multicriteria method to assess the condition of insurers while considering simultaneously a set of conflicting financial criteria. Then, we use regression analysis to examine the influence of firm-specific and...

In 2003, the Mexican Congress approved a reform establishing the Sistema de Protección Social en Salud [System of Social Protection in Health], whereby public funding for health is being increased by one percent of the 2003 gross domestic product over seven years to guarantee universal health insurance. Poor families that had been excluded from traditional social security can now enrol in a new...

Russo G, et al. BMJ Glob Health 2017;2:e000400. doi:10.1136/bmjgh-2017-000400 IntroductIon Achieving universal health coverage (UHC) has become a dominant policy preoccupation within the global health community. For Africa, progress towards UHC involves ambitious goals for expanding access to a range of effective health services, a substantial increase in health expenditure, and establishing a ...

An analytical framework for modeling the performance of a single TCP session in the presence of random packet loss is presented that is based on a semi-Markov model for the window size evolution. The model predicts the throughput for LANs/WANs (low and high bandwidth-delay products) with good accuracy, as compared against simulation results with ns simulator. Generally, higher speed channels ar...

Drawing on data from various sources, this article compares the 1980 and 1983 levels of spending on social security and health in the United States with the levels in seven other countries: Canada, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Sweden, and Japan. Currently, in the United States, social security is customarily understood to include only old-age, survivors, and disability ...

Government-sponsored health insurance is a central pillar of the modern welfare state. In advanced industrial democracies, public spending on medical care accounts for an average of 6 percent of gross domestic product (GDP), making it the largest category of social spending after public pensions.1 Despite the popularity and resilience of established health programs, however, the introduction of...

Many life insurance companies are turning to technology to speed and remove cost from the underwriting process. Automated underwriting systems have been developed to reduce the manpower, time and/or data necessary to underwrite a life insurance application, while maintaining the quality of underwriting decisions. Although these systems have been in existence for some time, not much is known abo...

10.1056/nejmp1001439 nejm.org e29(1) ton is still taking the full measure of Senator Scott Brown’s victory in Massachusetts, but among seasoned observers, the election’s potential fallout for health reform was evident even before the first votes were cast.1 The political narrative of the Brown victory is the stuff of legend: the loss of a Senate seat held by an iconic figure who devoted his hal...