Further, when health care utilization is measured in dollar terms, the results are consistent with direct measures of health care use. A study using linked NHIS and Medical Expenditure Panel Survey data demonstrated that per capita health care expenditures for immigrants were almost half as much ...
Our findings suggest the presence of adverse selection in both 1989 and 1995, and in terms of the age distribution of membership and especially the number of health conditions suffered, changes composition of the health fund membership between the two surveys indicate the process of adverse ...
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Another extension to this work can be regressing using generalized additive models by bounding (penalizing) second-order terms (curvature) of the splines, leading to a more robust approximation, proposed by [50]. Furthermore, in future work, we intend to test the predictive power of other ...
According to the latest literature, life is imitating art, as the locus of research into XAI turns toward asking better questions, defining clearer terms, and conceiving new AI frameworks whose reasoning can be made more explicable than that of current machine learning approaches. ...
healthcare. After the first round of phone calls (n = 30), we noticed that all the individuals were hesitant and refused to participate on hearing the topic of the interview. In the following rounds, we therefore introduced the topic in more neutral terms: we asked whether individuals ...
“when they figure out it is not working, they present themselves and by then it is a little bit too late in terms of curative options” (health worker, Kenya). By that time, “they have lost most of their income and the situation has worsened to an advanced stage” (health worker, ...
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Of the 15,000 questionnaires disseminated by the two participating health insurers, a total of 3034 were returned, yielding a response rate of 20.2 %. We subsequently checked the sample for representativeness and found that respondents largely resembled non-respondents in terms of sociodemographic chara...
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