67 Results Found

Objective: This study identifies specific patterns of exclusion in health insurance policies in India, based on age, gender and pre-existing ailments. Method: For its purposes, extensive primary research was conducted across different levels of the h...

This study is the first to examine factors in the utilization of physician services, dentist services, hospital care, and prescribed medications focusing exclusively on insured children in the United States. Data describing 48,660 insured children we...

The present study explores district-level data associated with health insurance coverage (%) and the prevalence of hypertension (mildly, moderately, and severely elevated) observed across men and women as per NFHS 5. Coastal districts in the peninsul...

The aim of this study was to analyze the influence of some personal characteristics, health variables, and social support on the self-rated health of people in housing exclusion in Spain. For that purpose, we used the FOESSA Survey of Social Integrat...

This study examines how Israel’s legal and institutional arrangements, including migration policies, health-insurance eligibility rules, and safety enforcement mechanisms, shape health risks for Thai migrant agricultural workers, and identifies...

Research on whether sexual orientation discrimination is associated with multiple tobacco product use among sexual minority (SM) adults is limited. Thus, we explored the associations between sexual orientation discrimination and exclusive, dual, and...

Costa Rica is home to 557,000 migrants, whose disproportionate exposure to precarious, dangerous, and informal work has resulted in persistent inequities in health and wellbeing in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. We used a novel multimodal ground...

Background/Objectives: High-flux online hemodiafiltration (OL-HDF) appears to be associated with better survival than hemodialysis (HD). In Brazil, OL-HDF is only affordable for patients with private health insurance. Although observational studies h...

Introduction: Health-care disparities have been reported throughout medical literature for decades. While blatant explicit bias is not prevalent, a substantial body of research has been published suggesting that systemic biases related to sex, race,...

Background: Oral health inequalities in older adults persist despite the availability of effective preventive and clinical interventions, representing a significant public health challenge in ageing societies. Objective: This narrative review examine...

There is a literature gap regarding facial feminization surgery (FFS) access and coverage. Our goal is to compile information from previous studies and assess the current policy landscape for these surgeries in the US. We also explored why some polic...

Israel is not isolated from the global migration process. It is required to provide a medical, educational, and socio-cultural response to the integration of tens of thousands of African asylum seekers. This qualitative-phenomenological study collect...

The Korean National Health Insurance system imposes a 30% coinsurance for outpatient medical care and prescription drugs; however, at the age of 65, the coinsurance model changes to a copayment model that offers lower fees for the elderly. Thus, this...

Background/Objectives: The preventable trauma death rate (PTDR) reflects the quality of trauma management systems. In the Republic of Korea, the PTDR in Seoul, the capital city, decreased from 30.8% in 2015 to 20.4% in 2019. However, it remains the h...

Access to health care is a fundamental human right established in various legal frameworks worldwide. However, increasing evidence indicates that individuals with physical disabilities in rural Ethiopia continue to face barriers and disparities in ac...

Background: Rural older women in China face intersecting disadvantages including eroded family support, limited pension coverage, and high social isolation that elevate depressive symptoms. Although Long-Term Care Insurance (LTCI) has expanded rapidl...

The aim of the present study was to evaluate the risk of developing keratopathy in patients with surgery-indicated chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) via the National Health Insurance Research Database in Taiwan. Patients with a diagnostic code of CRS and...

This study investigates the development of glaucoma in subjects with surgery-indicated chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) by the use of the National Health Insurance Research Database in Taiwan. Individuals that received the functional endoscopic sinus sur...

We aim to evaluate the risk of dry eye disease (DED) occurrence in patients with surgery-indicated chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) via the national health insurance research database in Taiwan. After exclusion, patients with a diagnostic code of CRS and...

Background/Objectives: Possible sarcopenia has been proposed as an early clinical category for identifying individuals at risk of adverse muscle-related outcomes before full diagnostic evaluation. This study examined whether comorbidity burden is ass...

Pople suffering from mental disorders are increasingly excluded from the labour market by a growing disability insurance use. Young adults are most affected by this phenomenon, with the largest increase of disability pensions for mental health disord...

Purpose: Cigarette smoking is an established risk factor for colorectal cancer (CRC), yet the association between smoking status, including non-combustible nicotine or tobacco product (NNTP) use, and site-specific CRC risk remains unclear. Methods: T...

Background: The aim of this study was to explore community pharmacy service users’ attitudes and opinions towards vaccination programs in pharmacy conducted by a doctor of medicine or a pharmacist. Methods: The questionnaire used in this study...

Alcohol, a psychoactive substance with addictive potential, has major consequences on the population and public health. In France, alcohol use disorder affects approximately 3.5 million people, and 41,000 persons died in 2015. Alcohol consumption is...

Sex differences in intensive care unit (ICU) admission and treatment are reflected in the underrepresentation of women, poorer outcomes, and higher mortality risk. Historical exclusion from clinical trials has limited evidence for providing sex-speci...

Photoimmunotherapy is a novel cancer treatment that recently became covered by national health insurance in Japan, but treatment decision-making remains challenging for unresectable advanced or recurrent head and neck cancer. We aimed to clarify the...

This study aimed to investigate the association between the heat-related illness (HRI) and the risk of developing psychiatric disorders. From 2000 to 2015, there were 3126 patients with newly diagnosed HRI selected from the National Health Insurance...

Sjögren’s syndrome (SS) is a chronic systemic inflammation disease with clinical presentation of dry eye, dry mouth, and polyarthralgia. Active inflammation is associated with an increased risk of associated arterial stiffness or subclinic...

Objective: This study explores the prevalence of violence and forced displacement as indicators of inequity among Bogotá’s elderly population, with a particular focus on how these factors affect their health and access to healthcare serv...

Objectives: This review aimed to identify and synthesize the existing literature on the effects of socioeconomic status (SES) changes on health. Methods: A review was conducted using Medline, Cochrane library, and CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing...

Background: Research on women’s health is essential for addressing sex-specific healthcare needs and informing evidence-based policy. However, women-only health research in Taiwan has not been systematically examined. Methods: We conducted a Sc...

To evaluate the relationship between subconjunctival hemorrhage (SCH) and dermatologic vasculature diseases (DVDs) via the national health insurance research database (NHIRD) of Taiwan. This retrospective cohort study used data from the NHIRD for the...

Isolated elevation of γ-glutamyltransferase (GGT), a microsomal membrane-bound protein, is commonly observed in non-obese Koreans without diabetes, and its clinical implications are not well-known. Therefore, we aimed to investigate the longitu...

Background: Human papillomavirus (HPV) infection is the most common sexually transmitted viral infection in the world. HPV vaccination adherence rates in men are generally lower than in women. The aim of this systematic review and meta-analysis was t...

The purpose of the current study was to evaluate the incidence of glaucoma in patients diagnosed with sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) via the application of the National Health Insurance Research Database in Taiwan. A retrospective cohort study was...

The aim of the present study was to survey the relationship between the severity of glaucoma and subsequent dementia using the National Health Insurance Research Database (NHIRD) in Taiwan. Subjects with glaucoma were selected into the study group af...

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is one of the risk factors for dementia. Female sex is an inconsistent risk factor for dementia after adjusting for age in the general population, and there lacks research on its impact in developing dementia in patients with...

Background: Sarcopenia is underdiagnosed in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Low alanine transaminase (ALT) is associated with sarcopenia. We evaluated the association between low ALT and the presence of IBD and disease activity. Metho...

Penetrating keratoplasty (PK) is a corneal surgery that is employed to repair the full-thickness corneal lesion. This study aimed to survey the possible systemic risk factors of infectious keratitis after penetrating keratoplasty (PK) via the Taiwan...

Background: We investigated the association between BMI and HNC subtype incidence in a cohort study of ten million people, adjusting for the effect of smoking and drinking. We also investigated the relationship between waist circumference (WC) and HN...

Background/Objectives: Prior studies linking fatty liver-related phenotypes to aortic disease have mainly focused on abdominal aortic aneurysm and used earlier nomenclature. We examined associations of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver...

This study aimed to comprehensively clarify the genomic landscape and its association with tumor mutational burden-high (TMB-H, ≥10 mut/Mb) and microsatellite instability-high (MSI-H) in endometrial, cervical, and ovarian cancers. We obtained geno...

African American/Black communities comprise 12.2% of the U.S. population, with a COVID-19 infection rate of more than 18% and marginal access to healthcare services. This scoping review synthesizes the emerging evidence on healthcare accessibility am...

Background and objectives: We aimed to evaluate the correlation between periodontal disease (PD) and following ocular diseases via the National Health Insurance Research Database in Taiwan. Materials and Methods: A retrospective cohort study was cond...

Background: Neonatal morbidities are major determinants of clinical outcomes and healthcare utilization in preterm infants. However, population-level evidence quantifying the cumulative contribution of neonatal morbidities to neonatal intensive care...

Background: Socioeconomic factors may influence maternal nutrition knowledge (MNK), which directly affects the nutritional status of children under five. This study aims to explore the importance of socioeconomic factors associated with MNK and nutri...

Objectives: The COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic is an ongoing public health challenge, also for the dentistry community. The main objective of this paper was to determine the economic and health-care impact of COVID-19 on dentists in the Autonomous Re...

Background: In the COVID-19 pandemic, novel regional services and communication channels emerged across all sectors of the German healthcare system. To contribute to pandemic preparedness, this study aims to describe newly established services in res...

Background/Objectives: The World Federation of the Deafblind Global Report 2023 reports that many countries do not have a comprehensive identification, assessment, and referral system for persons with deafblindness, a combination of hearing and visio...

Background: Kazakhstan is among the most highly endemic countries for hepatic echinococcosis worldwide, yet no study systematically characterised the national hepatobiliary surgical burden of cystic (CE) and alveolar (AE) echinococcosis using adminis...