Health Equity ResearchCenter (HERC), Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. arolyaee@gmail.com.
National Institute of Health Research, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, No. 70, Bozorgmehr Ava., Vesal St., Keshavars Blvd, Tehran, 1416833481, Iran. arolyaee@gmail.com.
Department of Health Services Administration and Policy, College of Public Health, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Electronic address: hamlet.gasoyan@temple.edu.
Alleviating health inequality among different income groups has become a significant policy goal in China to promote common prosperity. Based on the data from the China Health and Retirement Longitudi...
Prostate cancer is the most common cause for cancer mortality among men in Colombia. Law 100, in 1993, created a contributory regime (private insurance) and subsidized regime (public insurance) in whi...
Prostate cancer mortality records from 2006 to 2020 were collected from Colombia's National Administrative Department of Statistics (DANE). Crude mortality was calculated by health insurance for diffe...
Crude mortality rates in the contributory regime had a non-statistically significant decrease from 2006 to 2012 (AAPC= -1.32%, P = 0.14, 95% CI= -3.12, 0.52). In contrast, between 2013 and 2020 there ...
Ruling T760 did not positively impact prostate cancer mortality, particularly of men in the subsidized regime....
Iran considers the revision of its health insurance benefit package (HIBP) as a means to achieve universal health coverage (UHC). Yet, its decision-making process has been criticised for being weak in...
The High Council for Health Insurance (HCHI) is coordinating the HIBP revision: it planned the six steps of the EDP framework with support from World Health Organization (WHO) and Radboudumc in 2019, ...
Implementation of the MS pilot project concerned the installation of advisory committees (involving some 60 stakeholders in supportive task forces, a technical working group [TWG] and a national advis...
Implementation of the priority setting process for MS diagnosis and treatment services has likely improved the legitimacy of decision-making by involving stakeholders who engaged in deliberation based...
Efficiency, equity and financial risk protection are key health systems objectives. Equitable distribution of health care is among the priority strategic initiative of the government of Ethiopia. Howe...
Aligned with policy documents, we identified the following groups to be the worse off in the Ethiopian context: under-five children, women of reproductive age, the poor, and rural residents. We used t...
The average scores ranged from 1.11 (for vitiligo) to 3.79 (for obstetric fistula). We standardized the scores to be bounded between 1 and 2; 1 the lowest equity score and 2 the highest equity score. ...
The Delphi method can be useful in generating equity scores for prioritizing health interventions where disaggregated data on the distribution of diseases or access to interventions by subpopulation g...
Healthcare workers play an important part in the delivery of health insurance benefits, and their role in ensuring service quality and availability, access, and good management practice for insured cl...
An exploratory qualitative study was conducted in the rural districts of Igunga and Nzega, western-central Tanzania. Eight interviews were carried out with healthcare workers who had at least three ye...
Three categories were developed that describe healthcare workers´ experiences and perceptions of delivering the benefits of health insurance for the elderly living in rural Tanzania. Healthcare worker...
While health insurance was considered an important mechanism to facilitate access to care among rural elderly, several challenges that impede its purpose were mentioned by the participants. Based on t...
To evaluate the benefit distribution of social health insurance among domestic migrants in China....
A national cross-sectional survey....
348 cities from 32 provincial units in China....
1165 domestic migrants who used inpatient care services in the city of a new residence and had social health insurance....
The probability of receiving reimbursements from social health insurance, the amounts and ratio of reimbursement received....
Among migrants who used inpatient care in 2013, only 67% received reimbursements from social health insurance, and the reimbursement amount only accounted for 47% of the inpatient care expenditure. Th...
The unequal benefit distribution among domestic migrants may be attributed to the fragmented health insurance design that relies on localised administration, and later reimbursement approach that migr...
In the context of healthy aging, enhancing health performance is an intrinsic requirement for the development and reform of the health insurance system. This paper mainly discusses the health effects ...
The Netherlands reformed its disability insurance (DI) scheme in 2006. Eligibility for DI became stricter, reintegration incentives became stronger, and DI benefits often became less generous. Based o...
Expenses related to employee's health benefit packages are rising. Hence, organisations are looking for complementary health financing arrangements to provide more financial protection for employees. ...
This study was conducted in 2021 in Iran, in the Foundation of Martyrs and Veterans Affairs to find as many applicable criteria as possible. To develop a comprehensive list of criteria, we used triang...
Out of 85 criteria, we selected 28 criteria to choose an insurer for implementing complementary private health insurance. The finalised criteria were fell into six domains: (i) Previous experience of ...
We propose a quantitative decision-making checklist to choose the best complimentary private health insurance provider. We invite colleagues to utilise, adapt, modify, or develop these criteria to sui...
In 2019 and 2020, Medicare Advantage (MA) plans received historic flexibility to begin to address members' nonmedical and social needs through a set of primarily health-related benefits (PHRBs) and Sp...
A difference-in-differences design of retrospective Medicare enrollment data linked to publicly available plan and county-level data....
We linked individual-level Medicare enrollment data to publicly available, plan-level MA benefit, crosswalk, and penetration files from 2016 to 2020. We compared the number of new enrollees and the pr...
In fully adjusted models, PHRB adoption was associated with a 2.2% decrease in the proportion of fully dual-eligible new members (95% CI, -4.0% to -0.5%). SSBCI adoption was associated with a 2.3% dec...
We determined that supplemental benefit adoption was not associated with demographic shifts in MA plan enrollment....
