Under a single-payer system, all health costs are paid by the government using tax revenue. This allows countries to control costs, in part, by having the government play a stronger role in negotiating prices for healthcare. Health insurance is universal and offered by a single entity.16Howeve...
Health services are a basic necessity for a person. Private companies have made health services quite costly for ordinary individuals. Do the advantages of private health care outweigh its disadvantages? Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experien...
Summary China's current strategy to improve how health services are paid for is headed in the right direction, but much more remains to be done. The problems to be resolved, reflecting the setbacks of recent decades, are substantial: high levels of out-of-pocket payments and cost escalation,...
In Canada, all provinces have universal health care but there are variations in how this is implemented within the federal guidelines. Some provinces have premiums on a sliding scale based on family net income, while others fund health care through provincial taxes on income. Doctors are paid by...
"While we think it makes sense for patients to have shorter hospital stays, we need to realize that the length of stay in the hospital is only part of the equation of the cost of thehealth careof that individual. It may be that we should make the hospital stay longer to enable the in...
Health insurance is a contract between a company and a consumer. The company agrees to pay all or some of the insured person's healthcare costs in return for payment of a monthly premium.1 The contract is usually a one-year agreement, during which you are responsible for paying specific ex...
Gaps in access to health care in countries with mandates for universal coverage may occur due to a number of reasons, such as financial barriers like user charges or informal payments, or non-financial barriers such as waiting times, service exclusions, or poor quality care. In order to ...
2020coronavirus disease(COVID-19) pandemic has left health care experts and world leaders grappling with what the best course of action is to combat the virus for the long term. But while herd immunity is effective for some illnesses, whether it's a viable solution for COVID-19 remains to...
while PCIs have little room to grow [6]. Furthermore, guiding patients to PHC can help to achieve universal health care (UHC) [7] and reduce readmissions [8]. Therefore, studying PHC use has practical significance. Studies so far have focused mainly on two aspects of PHC: optimization ...
In terms of the task of CLR, the remote suburbs have more tasks, while in terms of the use of construction land obtained from CLR, the construction land used in the remote suburbs is limited due to low efficiency of construction land. This difference is an important reason for spatial ...