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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"co-payment"”.
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The Effect of a Nominal Fee on Treatment Choices for Children Needing Dental Rehabilitation
… The purpose of the study was to determine if a co-payment resulted in a differential preference for general anesthesia (GA) or oral sedation (OS) and, if so, to examine whether age, the number of appointments, perceived risks of treatment, child's awareness during treatment, or insurance type …
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Optimization driven approaches for subsidy allocation and supply chain procurement
… structural and algorithmic insights on the corresponding problems. In the first part of the thesis, we study subsidy allocation problems under budget constraints and endogenous market response, where the central planner's objective is to maximize the market consumption of a good. We first …
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Pharmaceutical policies used in LMIC countries to enhance pharmaceutical spending efficiency: a review
… makes up for a major share of healthcare costs in Low- and-MiddleIncome Countries (LMICs), where access to essential medicines is hindered by high prices, inefficient procurement, and restricted budget. In order to achieve Universal Health Coverage (UHC), there must be policies that ensure …
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Achieving Public Long-Term Care Insurance Through Social Security Wealth: Microsimulation for the US Case
… point in one's life is non-negligible, and the cost of care–whether in formal or informal settings– can be prohibitive for many seniors. In fact LTC is sometimes labeled the last major uninsured expense for seniors in the United States. The majority of LTC costs are currently borne by Medicaid …
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Using the health policy triangle framework to describe local, regional and national healthcare policy changes within Ireland's diverse healthcare settings
… Developed in the late 20th century, the conceptual descriptive framework for this thesis was inspired by Walt and Gilson’s health policy triangle (HPT). The HPT model is a policy analysis framework universally used and applied in the literature to analyse various health-related issues, …
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Economic evaluation of antenatal screening for Down Syndrome and serious congenital heart defects in Norway
Following recommendations laid down by a consensus conference in 1986, the policy of the Norwegian government has been to offer a routine ultrasound scan to all pregnant women at 18 weeks of gestation, i.e. in the second trimester (weeks 14-27) of pregnancy . This form of antenatal screening is …
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The status of assisted reproductive technology in the public health sector in Africa – a multi-country survey
… of ART services in the public sector in African countries; and the facilitators and barriers towards service provision. Methods: A mixed methods internet-based cross sectional survey was conducted in Africa in 2 phases. Countries providing ART in Africa were identified from the African Network …
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An analysis of the impact of generic medicine reference pricing in a sector of the South African private healthcare insurance industry
… for a substantial percentage of the total cost of health care and continue to exceed economic growth and inflation. Generic medicines play an important role in limiting this expenditure, and consequently there is an international drive to implement pro - generic policies particularly in …