BACKGROUND The effects of National Health Insurance Scheme in Ghana and its impact on child health outcome and service utilization cannot be underestimated. Despite the tremendous improvement in child health care in Ghana, there are still some challenges in relation to how National health insurance membership, socioeconomic status and other demographic factors impacts on child health outcomes. ...

This study carries out in-depth political feasibility analysis of the prospective health financing reform currently taking place in Taiwan. The National Health Insurance (NHI) Program, which was established in Taiwan in 1995, covers virtually all of the island’s citizens. Between the years 2001 and 2004, the Taiwanese Government organized a taskforce to carry out the wholesale reform of the NHI...

While National Health Insurance (NHI) plans in the U.S. are often opposed on the basis of their potential disemployment effects, there is no existing evidence on the effects of NHI on employment. We provide such evidence by examining the employment consequences of NHI in Canada, using the fact that NHI was introduced on a staggered basis across the Canadian provinces. We examine monthly data on...

BACKGROUND The present study measured the performance of the Papanicolaou (Pap) test and detection of cervical carcinoma in situ (CIS) and cancer in participants of organized cervical cancer screening in South Korea, and examined differences in the proportion of CIS according to socio-demographic factors. METHODS Data were obtained from the National Cancer Screening Program and National Healt...

America honors four presidents with monuments on the National Mall in Washington, DC, and Franklin D Roosevelt didn’t get his by chance. Leadership out of the Depression, triumph in World War II, and the New Deal are just part of his immense legacy. But President Roosevelt didn’t do it all. In 1935, forced to choose between his highest domestic policy priorities—a minimum guaranteed income for ...

Background: Indonesia recently implemented a National Health Insurance program while simultaneously grappling with the challenge of unmet family planning needs. Objective: This study aimed to examine correlation between health insurance ownership and utilization methods among married/in-union women in Indonesia. Methods: employed secondary data analysis using 2017 Indonesian Demography Survey (...

Several issues are particularly well dealt with in this book. The difficulties inherent in a health system dominated by an organization (the hospital) which has no real control over the major health. provider (the physician) are explored. Although no solutions are offered, both sides of the issue are discussed in a way which can facilitate mutual understanding. I also particularly enjoyed Dr. L...

introduction: in order to fulfill the health and medical needs of rural people, iran's medical services insurance organization approved a plan to provide rural health insurance in 2005. the plan aimed to make an appropriate context for the activities of private health care service providers in the rural areas and to meet public expectations for access to specialized medical services. in this st...

PURPOSE Korea started breast cancer screening as part of the National Cancer Screening Program (NCSP) in 1999. In order to identify under-served groups, we investigated mammography uptake in the National Breast Cancer Screening Program. MATERIALS AND METHODS The study population was participants in the National Breast Cancer Screening Program from 2004 to 2008. We analyzed participation rates...