Understanding public preferences in terms of health benefit packages (HBPs) remains limited, yet gathering community insights is an important endeavour when developing people-centred health systems and moving towards universal health coverage. Our study aimed to address this gap in knowledge by eliciting community preferences for the social health insurance benefit package among the uninsured i...

Introduction: Several Nigerians are completely denied access to adequate health care because of cultural, temporal and financial factors with inequity. Objectives: To ascertain the household perceptions, willingness to pay, benefit package preferences, and health systems readiness for Insurance Scheme. Methods: A cross-sectional study of 400 heads of households and 43 health workers in Enugu, S...

conclusions based on these findings, the use of self-empowerment regardless of the education program tools (workshop or training package), can promote self-care skills and thus improve the quality of life in diabetic patients. methods this study was a randomized clinical trial. diabetic patients referring to the diabetes center, affiliated to urmia university of medical sciences, participated i...

in this research, attention is focused on the resistantance of packages containing silver nanoparticles to gases such as oxygen as well as to the antimicrobial property of these packages. the effect of these packages on increasing quality and shelf time of the barberry was investigated in comparison with the current polyethylene packages. to do this, different microbial factors and the color of...

The development of the sports food market and industrial involvement have led to numerous nutritional studies to define the type of nutrients that are most suited to support energy metabolism, fluid balance and muscle function. The key question in many of these studies was: 'Does the product lead to a significant product/consumer benefit that can be used as a claim on the package?' New methods ...

The results of a national survey of stressful life events are introduced as a useful framework for redesigning or fine-tuning corporate benefit packages to better meet employee needs, as well as to attract and retain top talent. Among the specific recommendations are (a) expanded bereavement leave, (b) hospice services, (c) employee assistance program access, (d) child care/elder care and (e) g...