A new public health insurance scheme has been gradually introduced in rural provinces in China since 2003. This would likely cause an increment in the use of health services. It is known that the association between health insurance coverage and health service utilization varies among different age groups. This study aims to examine the association between extending health insurance coverage an...

a strategy that integrates an organization's marketing goals into a cohesive whole, ideally drawn from market research, focuses on the ideal product mix in order to achieve maximum profit potential; the marketing strategy is set out as a marketing plan, a good idea, method, information, object, or service that is the end result of a process and serves as a need or want satisfier. it is usually ...

COMPLAINT has been made by Insurance Committees that they are so largely engaged in carrying out arrangements which have been imposed upon them by the Minister that they are unable to develop the Insurance Medical Service on their own initiative. This is, to a large extent, unavoidable. In a national system the nature of the service required and the machinery for securing it must inevitably be ...

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...

This paper uses the British Household Panel Survey for the years 1996-2000 to investigate the relationship between saving and private medical insurance in the UK. Because the National Health Service (NHS) gives comprehensive health coverage and is generally free at source, one would not expect private medical insurance to crowd-out saving. However, the NHS being characterised by long waiting li...

Under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Medicare coverage expanded in 2011 to fully cover annual preventive care visits. We assessed the impact of coverage expansion, using 2007-13 data from primary care patients of Medicare-eligible age at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation (204,388 patient-years), which serves people in four counties near San Francisco, California. We compared trends in preventive...

introduction: human resources are one of the factors most effective on the success or failure of an organization and service motivation is a factor which affects the quality and quantity of activity of an organization. the present study aimed to determine the motivating potential score (mps) of medical record staff of training hospitals in isfahan, iran, over the years of 2011-2012. methods: th...

From the basic hospital expense benefit program that began in 1929 at Baylor University Hospital in Dallas, Texas, through the development of group insurance coverage for surgeon’s fees in 1938 and medical expense benefits in 1943, to the introduction of major medical expense benefits in 1949, the prevailing concept of group health insurance has been to spread individual economic risks of injur...