Eight major federal data systems, including the National Vital Statistics System (NVSS), National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), National Survey of Children's Health, National Longitudinal Mortality Study, and American Community Survey, were used to examine health differentials between immigrants and the US-born across the life course. Survival and logistic regression, prevalence, and age-adju...

OBJECTIVES This report presents statistics from the 2008 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) on selected measures of oral health status and oral health care access for adults aged 18-64. Estimates are presented by sex, age, race and ethnicity, nativity, education, poverty status, health and dental insurance status, region, place of residence, dentition status, current smoking status, curren...

Abstract National health insurance (NHI) is a financing mechanism established by national government with the goal of covering all or almost its citizens. A number low- and middle-income countries have NHIs as part strategy to progress towards universal coverage. The establishment an NHI presents potentially significant shift in sector governance, but little available literature regarding how p...

ISSUE: The Affordable Care Act's (ACA) coverage provisions have extended health insurance coverage to millions of Americans. While the effects of the Medicaid expansion and marketplace establishments on coverage have been well studied, the resulting effects of coverage on access to health care remain unclear. GOAL: To examine how the 2014 coverage expansions affected health care access followin...

This study was carried out to determine the level of support towards the proposed National Health Insurance scheme among Malaysian patients attending specialist clinics at the National University of Malaysia Medical centre and its influencing factors. The cross sectional study was carried out from July-October 2012. 260 patients were selected using multistage sampling method. 71.2% of responden...

T he unique geography of Maldives, along with high dependence on imports and expatriate manpower, has meant that health services come at substantially higher costs than other countries in the region. In response, the country has undertaken several reforms in recent years to tbe way in which health is financed. Two of these prominent measures include the creation of seven health service corporat...

Abstract Background Increasing the use of healthcare is a significant step in improving health outcomes both short and long term. However, degree relationship between utilization services affected by quality rendered, timeliness treatment follow-up care. In this study, we investigated whether National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) helping pregnant women accessing Ghana. Methods Data for study ...

The worrying growth of extreme natural events and their socioeconomic impact over time is increasingly fuelling the debate on how to manage disasters in view developing resilient sustainable societies. One possible financial tool may be represented by insurance against hazards, such as earthquakes, floods, landslides. From this perspective, current article considers legislative attempts build a...

BACKGROUND Coronary angioplasty has been replacing coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) because of the relative advantage in terms of recovery time and noninvasiveness of the procedure. Compared to other Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries, Korea has experienced a rapid increase in coronary angioplasty volumes. METHODS We analyzed changes in procedure volu...