background & aim: maternal satisfaction of health services is an inherent element of healthcare policies, and quality of midwifery care essentially influences this parameter. this study aimed to evaluate maternal satisfaction of postpartum care and its association with midwifery care at the urban health centers of mashhad, iran in 2012. methods:this descriptive, cross sectional study was conduc...

introduction: nowadays students’ opinion is considered as a necessary factor to evaluate quality in universities. this study was performed to evaluate the nursing students’ satisfaction about their field of study. methods: the research population in this study consists of all the students of nursing studying at the second to fourth year of university (72 students). the data were collected from ...

background & aim : many changes occur during and after pregnancy which affect physical, psychological and social health and generally women's quality of life. this study aims to explore the relationship between quality of life and sexual dysfunction after delivery. methods & materials : this cohort study was designed to compare the relation of mode of delivery to quality of life and sexual sati...

THE OPERATIONS of the old-age, survivors, and disability insurance program yield, as a byproduct, valuable data for social, economic, and demographic analyses. One important field is the study of the mortality of insured workersboth those with recent covered employment and those without such employment-in relation to the mortality for the Nation’s total population. Many of the differences arisi...

Many large employers prefer to self-insure health plans offered to employees rather than purchase them from insurance companies to save costs and to avoid the burden of complying with varying state mandates. This concerns state governments because they cannot directly regulate self-insured plans. This article describes the prevalence of employer self-insurance for the nation and by state in 199...

The implementation of the standard agreement in Insurance Agreement according to Law No. 40 2014 confirms that insurance is an made between insurer and insured, which regulated Article 246 KUHD. As affirms fulfillment binding rights obligations insured party insurer, both parties must comply with all points are part agreement. This article classified as a literature research qualitative approac...

In this paper, I examine the impact of uninsured patients on the in-hospital mortality rate of insured heart attack patients. I employ panel data models using patient discharge and hospital financial data from California (1999-2006). My results indicate that uninsured patients have an economically significant effect that increases the mortality rate of insured heart attack patients. I show that...

Today’s insurance rates are often only a rough approximation of the actual risks they insure, categorizing insurance takers into coarse classes based on long-term demographic facts such as age or address. This not only negatively affects the care with which the insured good is treated, but also often implies a significant amount of cross-financing from low-risk customers to high-risk customer. ...

New estimates from the Commonwealth Fund Biennial Health Insurance Survey, 2014, indicate that 23 percent of 19-to-64-year-old adults who were insured all year--or 31 million people--had such high out-of-pocket costs or deductibles relative to their incomes that they were underinsured. These estimates are statistically unchanged from 2010 and 2012, but nearly double those found in 2003 when the...

The magnitude of provider uncompensated care has become an important public policy issue. Yet existing measures of uncompensated care are flawed because they compare uninsured payments to list prices, not to the prices actually paid by the insured. We address this issue using a novel source of data from a vendor that processes financial data for almost 4000 physicians. We measure uncompensated ...