background the major objective of the national health insurance scheme (nhis) in nigeria is to protect families from the financial hardship of large medical bills. catastrophic health expenditure (che) is rampart in nigeria despite the take-off of the nhis. this study aimed to determine if households enrolled in the nhis were protected from having che.   methods the study took place among 714 h...

Background Nepal has made remarkable efforts towards social health protection over the past several years. In 2016, the Government of Nepal introduced a National Health Insurance Program (NHIP) with an aim to ensure equitable and universal access to healthcare by all Nepalese citizens. Following the first year of operation, the scheme has covered 5 percent of its target population. There ...

BACKGROUND To determine whether the availability of National Health Insurance (NHI) is associated with a longitudinal increase in life satisfaction among older Taiwanese adults. METHODS This study used data from the Taiwan Longitudinal Study on Aging, a nationally representative sample (n = 3778) of older adults aged 60 and above. Participants were interviewed prior to the establishment of NH...

South Korea is one of the world's most rapidly industrializing countries. Along with industrialization has come universal health insurance. Within the span of 12 years, South Korea went from private voluntary health insurance to government-mandated universal coverage. Since 1997, with the intervention of the International Monetary Fund, Korean national health insurance (NHI) has experienced def...

Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, and Bureau of Pharmaceutical Affairs, Department of Health, Executive Yuan, Taipei. Received: 16 August 2000. Revised: 8 September 2000. Accepted: 17 October 2000. Reprint requests and correspondence to: Dr. Shan-Chwen Chang, Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Nati...

As I promised in my last notes to discuss the question of over-prescribing, I must now briefly consider this difficult problem-for problem it is to every insurance practitioner who endeavours to satisfy patients and at the same time spend his drug allowance economically. The chief cause of the high cost on the Drug Fund is to be found in the Belfast inhabitants' love for a bottle of medicine. I...