“It is like an umbrella covering you, yet it does not protect you from the rain”: a mixed methods study of insurance affordability, coverage, and financial protection in rural western KenyaSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 22 - Trang 1-13 - 2023
Beryl Maritim, Adam D. Koon, Allan Kimaina, Cornelius Lagat, Elvira Riungu, Jeremiah Laktabai, Laura J. Ruhl, Michael Kibiwot, Michael L. Scanlon, Jane Goudge
Countries in Sub-Saharan Africa are increasingly adopting mandatory social health insurance programs. In Kenya, mandatory social health insurance is being implemented through the national health insurer, the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF), but the level of coverage, affordability and financial risk protection provided by health insurance, especially for rural informal households, is uncle...... hiện toàn bộ
Overuse or underuse? Use of healthcare services among irregular migrants in a north-eastern Spanish regionSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 20 - Trang 1-11 - 2021
Luis Andrés Gimeno-Feliu, Marta Pastor-Sanz, Beatriz Poblador-Plou, Amaia Calderón-Larrañaga, Esperanza Díaz, Alexandra Prados-Torres
There is little verified information on global healthcare utilization by irregular migrants. Understanding how immigrants use healthcare services based on their needs is crucial to establish effective health policy. We compared healthcare utilization between irregular migrants, documented migrants, and Spanish nationals in a Spanish autonomous community. This retrospective, observational study inc...... hiện toàn bộ
Equity of the premium of the Ghanaian national health insurance scheme and the implications for achieving universal coverageSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 12 - Trang 1-9 - 2013
Eugenia Amporfu
The Ghanaian National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) was introduced to provide access to adequate health care regardless of ability to pay. By law the NHIS is mandatory but because the informal sector has to make premium payment before they are enrolled, the authorities are unable to enforce mandatory nature of the scheme. The ultimate goal of the Scheme then is to provide all residents with acces...... hiện toàn bộ
Are health care inequalities unfair? A study on public attitudes in 23 countriesSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 15 - Trang 1-8 - 2016
Olaf von dem Knesebeck, Nico Vonneilich, Tae Jun Kim
In this article we focus on the following aims: (1) to analyze national and welfare state variations in the public perception of income-related health care inequalities, (2) to analyze associations of sociodemographic, socioeconomic, health-related, and health care factors with the perception of health care inequalities. Data were taken from the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP), an ann...... hiện toàn bộ
The World Health Organization COVID-19 surveillance databaseSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 21 - Trang 1-15 - 2022
Maya Allan, Maja Lièvre, Henry Laurenson-Schafer, Stéphane de Barros, Yuka Jinnai, Sophie Andrews, Thomas Stricker, Jesus Perez Formigo, Craig Schultz, Anne Perrocheau, Julia Fitzner
In January 2020, SARS-CoV-2 virus was identified as a cause of an outbreak in China. The disease quickly spread worldwide, and the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the pandemic in March 2020. From the first notifications of spread of the disease, the WHO’s Emergency Programme implemented a global COVID-19 surveillance system in coordination with all WHO regional offices. The system aimed t...... hiện toàn bộ
A decade of improvements in equity of access to reproductive and maternal health services in Cambodia, 2000–2010Springer Science and Business Media LLC - - 2013
Antonia Dingle, Timothy Powell-Jackson, Catherine Goodman
Despite encouraging reductions in global maternal mortality rates, Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 5 on reducing maternal mortality and achieving universal access to reproductive health remains the most off-track of all MDGs. Furthermore a preoccupation with aggregate coverage statistics masks extensive disparities in health improvements between societal groups. Recent national health indicators...... hiện toàn bộ