will be constituted as follows : Lord Lawrence of Kingsgate (Chairman), Sir John Anderson, Sir Humphrey Rolleston, Bt., Sir Alfred Watson, Sir Arthur Worley, Sir Andrew Duncan, Mr. A. D. Besant, Mr. Fred. Bramley, Professor Alexander Gray, Miss Gertrude Tuckwell, Mrs. Harrison Bell, Mr. James Cook, Mr. John Evans, and Mr. William Jones. The Secretary to the Commission, to whom all communication...

INSURANCE Health is described as a state of complete physical, social, and mental wellbeing. In order to ensure that the population of a given nation remains at or achieves a good health status, health expenditures must be financed. Health care expenditures are the total amount of spending for personal health care, administration, research, construction, and other expenses that are directly rel...

Abstract Background Few studies have investigated the risk of gastric cancer (GC) in ulcerative colitis (UC), with inconsistent results. This study assessed GC patients newly diagnosed UC. Methods Using claims data Korean National Health Insurance (NHI) from January 2006 to December 2015, we identified incident UC patients. was defined using International Classification Diseases-10 codes and UC...

BACKGROUND Malaria is Ghana's most endemic disease; occurring across most parts of the country with a significant impact on individuals and the health system as whole. Treatment seeking for malaria care takes various forms. The National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) was introduced in 2004 to promote access to health services to mitigate the negative impact of the user fee regime. Ten years on,...

Abstract National health insurance (NHI) is a financing mechanism established by national government with the goal of covering all or almost its citizens. A number low- and middle-income countries have NHIs as part strategy to progress towards universal coverage. The establishment an NHI presents potentially significant shift in sector governance, but little available literature regarding how p...

Gallbladder polyp (GP) and stroke share several metabolic disorders as risk factors. We assessed the association between GP and subsequent stroke risk. From 2000 to 2011, patients with GP aged >20 years were identified from the Longitudinal Health Insurance Database 2000. Of the 15,975 examined patients, 12,780 and 3195 were categorized into the non-GP and GP cohorts, respectively. The relative...

Abstract Background Several studies have found a so-called weekend effect that patients admitted at the weekends had worse clinical outcomes than weekdays. We performed this retrospective cohort study to explore in four major cardiovascular emergencies Taiwan. Methods The Taiwan National Health Insurance (NHI) claims database between 2005 and 2015 was used. extracted 3811 incident cases of rupt...

BACKGROUND National/social health insurance schemes have increasingly been seen in many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) as a vehicle to universal health coverage (UHC) and a viable alternative funding mechanism for the health sector. Several countries, including Ghana, have thus introduced and implemented mandatory national health insurance schemes (NHIS) as part of reform efforts towa...

BACKGROUND To evaluate the impact of the 2002 Women's Health Initiative (WHI) study results on the prescription of menopausal hormone therapy (MHT) to treat menopause-related symptoms in Taiwan. METHODS This retrospective study participant data collected from women interviewed in 2001 Taiwan's National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) and the National Health Insurance (NHI) outpatient claims fo...