In 2016, China implemented the urban-rural coordination of basic medical insurance. order to judge whether farmers are satisfied with insurance system for urban and rural residents. this paper, Logistic regression model was used study satisfaction degree residents its influencing factors among 513 insured in 15 administrative villages H province. The found that five variables, including persona...

INTRODUCTION We compared access to preventive dental care among low-income children eligible for public dental insurance to access among children with private dental insurance and/or high family income (>400% of the federal poverty level) in Georgia, and the effect of policies toward increasing access to dental care for low-income children. METHODS We used multiple sources of data (eg, US Cen...

How can health insurance coverage in China be expanded and deepened? How can health insurers keep costs down and ensure high quality care for their members? What role should government have in health insurance in China? These were some of the questions addressed by two critical reviews of the Chinese-language and English-language literatures on rural and urban health insurance in China and abroad.

OBJECTIVES To understand the acceptability of, and willingness to pay for, community health insurance coverage among residents of rural India. METHODS We conducted a mixed methods study of 33 respondents located in 8 villages in southern India. Interview domains focused on health-seeking behaviors of the family for primary healthcare, household expenditures on primary healthcare, interest in ...

BACKGROUND Regular physical examination contributes to early detection and timely treatment, which is helpful in promoting healthy behaviors and preventing diseases. The objective of this study is to compare the annual physical examination (APE) use between rural and urban elderly in China. METHODS A total of 3,922 participants (60+) were randomly selected from three urban districts and three...

Since the Affordable Care Act (ACA) became law in 2010, Minnesota has experienced historic increases in the number of residents covered by health insurance. What is less known is how rural Minnesota has fared within those statewide changes, not only in terms of insurance coverage but also across aspects of health care access such as affordability, service availability and use of medical care. E...

This paper analyzes the connection between informal insurance institutions in rural Africa and the adoption of new technologies. We model two linked games — a community risk-sharing game and an old-age insurance game — and analyze the multiple equilibria that arise. We provide a numerical example that indicates that informal insurance institutions may put a downward pressure on the adoption of ...

OBJECTIVES In recent years, the government of the Philippines embarked upon an ambitious Universal Health Care program, underpinned by the rapid scale-up of subsidized insurance coverage for poor and vulnerable populations. With a view of reducing the stubbornly high maternal mortality rates in the country, the program has a strong focus on maternal health services and is supported by a nationa...

The term Information Communication Technology (ICT) encompasses computing & communication technologies and the associated with insurance sectors and its organizational activities in the last two decades a rapid evolution of ICT capabilities has been seen in homogeneous context. The most obvious is the search for a solution to what has long been an intractable problem: that rural India has remai...