In 2011, the World Health Organization (WHO) Essential Medicines Programme published a list of ‘‘priority medicines’’ they considered essential for countries to achieve the Millennium Development Goals in child and maternal health [1]. This list was a subset of the model Essential Medicines List (EML), produced every 2 years by the WHO, which selects medicines on the basis of public health rele...

INTRODUCTION The free maternal health policy was implemented in Ghana in 2008 under the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS). The policy sought to eliminate out of pocket (OOP) payments and enhance the utilisation of maternal health services. It is unclear whether the policy had altered OOP payments for services. The study explored views on costs and actual OOP payments during pregnancy. The...

In 2011, the World Health Organization (WHO) Essential Medicines Programme published a list of ‘‘priority medicines’’ they considered essential for countries to achieve the Millennium Development Goals in child and maternal health [1]. This list was a subset of the model Essential Medicines List (EML), produced every 2 years by the WHO, which selects medicines on the basis of public health rele...

The study examined awareness of National Health Insurance Scheme activities and service utilization among enrolled employees in government institutions Nigeria. Adopting the survey research method, data was collected from 1200 samples employed three federal Government Institutions Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria using a structured self-developed questionnaire. were selected purposive propor...

The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence and incidence evaluate current status dental treatment Amelogenesis imperfecta (AI) Dentinogenesis (DI) in South Korea. data based on National Health Insurance Service (NHIS)-National Sample Cohort Database (2002 - 2015) Jeonbuk University (JBNU) Dental Hospital (2011 2020). NHIS analysis showed AI DI were 11.6 2.4 per 100,000 people, respec...

INTRODUCTION Healthy People (HP) is the US program that formulates and tracks national health objectives for the nation. The National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) is a designated data source for setting and evaluating several HP targets in cancer. We used data from the 2008 and 2010 NHIS to provide a benchmark for national performance toward meeting HP 2020 cancer-related objectives. METHOD...