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Changes in telepsychiatry regulations during the COVID-19 pandemic: 17 countries and regions' approaches to an evolving healthcare landscape
2020
Author(s): Kinoshita, Shotaro; Cortright, Kelley; Crawford, Allison; Mizuno, Yuya; Yoshida, Kazunari; Hilty, Donald; Guinart, Daniel; Torous, John; Correll, Christoph U; Castle, David J; Rocha, Deyvis; Yang, Yuan; Xiang, Yu-Tao; Kolbaek, Pernille; Dines, David; ElShami, Mohammad; Jain, Prakhar; Kallivayalil, Roy; Solmi, Marco; Favaro, Angela; Veronese, Nicola; Seedat, Soraya; Shin, Sangho; Salazar de Pablo, Gonzalo; Chang, Chun-Hung; Su, Kuan-Pin; Karas, Hakan; Kane, John M; Yellowlees, Peter; Kishimoto, Taishiro | Abstract: BackgroundDuring the COVID-19 pandemic, the use of telemedicine as a way to reduce COVID-19 infections was noted and consequently deregulated. However, the degree of te…
Erosion of universal health coverage in Spain
2013
Whereas the recent UN resolution urges governments to accelerate progress towards universal access to affordable and quality health-care services, the Spanish Government, bypassing the parliamentary procedure, enacted a Royal Decree to limit access to free services at the point of delivery for all-undermining the principle of universal coverage. Spanish health and social service budgets have been subjected to large cuts (13,7% in 2012 and 16,2% in 2013) with some regions imposing additional budget cuts.
A sensemaking approach to a discursive ethical skill in healthcare management: the case of an oncopaediatric service
2015
International audience; This study uses the case of an oncological paediatric service to discuss sensemaking and discourse ethics in the context of caregiving, building ethical competence to provide the best care possible to children. The patients and their families live in paediatric care, some for several years. At length, an intense relationship may develop between the medical staff and patients' family members, albeit at times a difficult relationship. Still, interviews conducted indicated that when caregivers provided the best care possible to these patients, even in this harsh environment, an ethics of sensitivity made a positive difference both for the patients and the medical staff.…
Financial options as a mechanism for estimating insurance and reinsurance premiums in the Colombian health system
2007
Entre los instrumentos financieros de protección frente al riesgo se encuentran las opciones que protegen ante variaciones en el precio de un activo subyacente y las operaciones de seguro y de reaseguro que dan cubrimiento contra el riesgo derivado de la ocurrencia de un siniestro. En este artículo se presentan las equivalencias existentes entre la cobertura de riesgos con opciones y la cobertura generada con operaciones de seguro. Además, se muestra cómo esta similitud se evidencia en el caso de las operaciones de reaseguro hechas por las firmas de aseguramiento que funcionan dentro del sistema de salud colombiano. De esta manera, se demuestra que la cobertura proporcionada por las operaci…
RECONSIDERING THE FUNDING SOURCES FOR THE HEALTH SYSTEM IN ROMANIA
2010
An optimal health system must ensure that all citizens have free access to medical services, and to determine the effective use of funds. We therefore reach the conclusion that the health financing system that best meets the optimal criteria is the public one. We believe that a system of public health funding should be based not only on contributions, but also on funding from the state budget; therefore it should combine the two public sources. If it were based solely on contributions, then the earnings should be volatile towards the economic cyclicality, and would not ensure the fiscal sustainability of the system. The private health financing system should be based on private insurances, …
Private health insurance in the universal public healthcare system: The role of healthcare provision in Finland
2023
Voluntary private health insurance (VPHI) has gained popularity in universal public healthcare systems. We studied how the local provision of healthcare services correlated with VPHI take-up in Finland. Nationwide register data from a Finnish insurance company was aggregated to the local level and augmented with high-quality data on public and private primary care providers’ geographical closeness and fees. We found that the sociodemographic characteristics explained the VPHI take-up more than public or private healthcare provision. The VPHI take-up was negatively associated with distance to the nearest private clinic, while the associations with distance to public health stations were stat…
Równość i solidarność w powszechnym ubezpieczeniu zdrowotnym na tle zmian w finansowaniu opieki zdrowotnej od dnia 1 stycznia 2022 r
2022
Równość i solidarność to wartości, które w powszechnym ubezpieczeniu zdrowotnym przybierają postać zasad prawnych mających umocowanie zarówno w konstytucyjnej dyrektywie równego, bez względu na sytuację materialną obywatela, dostępu do świadczeń opieki zdrowotnej finansowanych ze środków publicznych (art. 68 ust. 2 Konstytucji RP), jak i ustawowym postanowieniu, że ubezpieczenie zdrowotne opiera się na zasadzie równego traktowania i solidarności społecznej (art. 65 pkt 1 ustawy o świadczeniach opieki zdrowotnej finansowanych ze środków publicznych). Relacja obu tych zasad w ramach powszechnego ubezpieczenia zdrowotnego polega na tym, że wiele istniejących odstępstw od równego traktowania uz…