Japanese National Health Insurance systemJapanIn this study, I examine the cost inefficiency and production inefficiency of municipal insurers operating under the Japanese National Health Insurance system. I employ insurer-level panel data for 2005 and 2010 and adopt stochastic frontier cost and ...
Japanese National Health Insurance systemJapanIn this study, we employ the stochastic frontier cost and production models to examine the effects of several factors and situations that the Japanese National Health Insurance insures currently face on their financial inefficiency. We find that increas...
Healthcare isn’t free but it’s relatively inexpensive. In addition to having to pay monthly premiums into the public health insurance system, Japanese citizens pay 30% of their medical bills themselves - bills that are closely regulated by the state, so that they never become unaffordable. Th...
- 《American Journal of Public Health》 被引量: 119发表: 2003年 Health system reform in the Czech Republic. Policy lessons from the initial experience of the general health insurance company. Health system reform in the Czech Republic: policy lessons from the initial experience of the general ...
The government has taken steps to reduce existing inequities in health care created by poor geographic distribution of doctors and rising medical costs; however equal resource distribution between urban and rural areas remains a distant goal. A national healthy insurance scheme was established in 1995 ...
The health and social system for the aged in Japan Japan implemented a new social insurance scheme for the frail and elderly, Long-Term-Care Insurance (LTCI) on 1 April 2000. This was an 茅poque-making even... S Matsuda - 《Aging Clinical & Experimental Research》 被引量: 37发表: 2002...
Yet, the Japanese National Health Insurance approves thalidomide prescription only for the treatment of multiple myeloma under the Thalidomide Education and Risk Management System (TERMS). Benefit of thalidomide therapy for patients with ENL is already an established fact based on various reports from ...
Since 1961, the Japanese public healthcare system based on the universal health insurance system has contributed to raising the level of health and life expectancy of the Japanese people through improving the equity in access to healthcare and the quantity and quality of healthcare services. On th...
There are different kinds of health insurances – just like in any other country. I don’t want to go into details. Probably the most common (also among foreigners) is the “kokumin kenko hoken” (国民健康保険), the “National Health Insurance“, which will cover 70% of (most) of your...
Medical cost for disability: a longitudinal observation of national health insurance beneficiaries in Japan. OBJECTIVES : To measure the impact of disability on the use of medical care and its costs. DESIGN : A 1-year prospective cohort study of National Health In... I Tsuji,A Kuwahara,Y Nish...