With the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), access to insurance and coverage of preventive care services has been expanded. By removing the barrier of shared costs for preventive care, it is expected that an increase in utilization of preventive care services will reduce the cost of chronic diseases. Early detection and treatment is anticipated to be less costly than treatment at ...

BACKGROUND Subsidizing healthcare costs through insurance schemes is crucial to overcome financial barriers to health care and to avoid high medical expenditures for patients in China. The health insurance could decrease financial risk by less out-of-pocket (OOP) payment, but not promise the protection equity. With the growth of New Cooperative Medical Scheme (NCMS) financing and coverage since...

Correction After publication of this work [1], we noted that the name and surname of one of the authors have been swapped. Now the order of names and surnames of all authors has been corrected as follows: " Ethel Mary Brinda, Antonio Rodríguez Andrés and Ulrika Enemark " (Name, surname). References 1. Brinda EM, Andrés RA, Enemark U: Correlates of out-of-pocket and catastrophic health expenditu...

BACKGROUND The catastrophic health expenditure and impoverishment indices offer guidance for developing appropriate health policies and intervention programs to decrease financial inequity. This study assesses socioeconomic inequalities in catastrophic health expenditure and impoverishment in relation to self-reported non-communicable diseases (NCD) in urban Hanoi, Vietnam. METHODS A cross-se...

with the implementation of the affordable care act (aca), access to insurance and coverage of preventive care services has been expanded. by removing the barrier of shared costs for preventive care, it is expected that an increase in utilization of preventive care services will reduce the cost of chronic diseases. early detection and treatment is anticipated to be less costly than treatment at ...

Headache is among the most common disabling pain complaints. While many patients are managed in primary care or referral neurology practices, some patients have refractive situations that necessitate referral to a tertiary headache center. Increasing frequency of headache is strongly associated with increasing disability and workplace absenteeism as well as increased healthcare utilization. Pre...