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Monday, November 23, 2009

Health reform in central and eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.

Oct 2009 In the two decades since the fall of the Berlin Wall, former communist countries in Europe have pursued wide-ranging changes to their health systems. We describe three key aspects of these changes-an almost universal switch to health insurance ... Read more...

[Out-of-pocket health care expenditures among population groups in Iceland]

29 Sep 2009 OBJECTIVE: Out-of-pocket health expenditures affect access to health care. The study investigated trends in these expenditures, and whether certain population groups spent more than others. MATERIAL AND METHODS: The data come from two national ... Read more...

Safe, efficient, and cost-effective orthognathic surgery in the outpatient setting.

29 Sep 2009 There has been a dramatic decline in the number of orthognathic surgery cases over the past 15 to 20 years. This decrease is a result of several compounding factors including decreasing coverage by major medical insurance companies and increasing ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Financing, Personal'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Health reform in central and eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Oct 2009
• [Out-of-pocket health care expenditures among population groups in Iceland] 29 Sep 2009
• Safe, efficient, and cost-effective orthognathic surgery in the outpatient setting. 29 Sep 2009
• [Germans have an unhealthy life style. How family physicians can make improvements] Sep 2009
• Complying with FACTA "Red Flag" Rules. 30 Aug 2009
• Health care expenditures of living with a disability: total expenditures, out-of-pocket expenses, and burden, 1996 to 2004. 30 Aug 2009
• Offering financial assistance to newly uninsured patients. 30 Aug 2009
• What you can do to help your uninsured patients. 30 Aug 2009
• Bridging the poverty gap in dental education: how can people living in poverty help us? 30 Aug 2009
• Removal of user fees and universal health-care coverage. 20 Aug 2009
• Cash is king. 15 Aug 2009
• Key quality aspect: a fundamental step for quality improvement in a resource-poor setting. 8 Aug 2009
• Does an energy efficiency label alter consumers' purchasing decisions? A latent class approach based on a stated choice experiment in Shanghai. 30 Jul 2009
• Financial facts: what are we going to do now? 30 Jul 2009
• Contingent valuation: (still) on the road to nowhere? 30 Jul 2009
• Should healthy Medicare beneficiaries postpone enrollment in Medicare Part D? 30 Jul 2009
• Modelling the monetary value of a QALY: a new approach based on UK data. 30 Jul 2009
• The current recession and healthcare consumers. 30 Jul 2009
• Identify uncollectible accounts early. 30 Jul 2009
• England's big care debate. 23 Jul 2009

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Technical information about 'Financing, Personal'

Definition: Payment by individuals or their family for health care services which are not covered by a third-party payer, either insurance or medical assistance.

Descriptor UI: D005382

Alternative terms: Financing, Personal; Personal Financing; Personal Expenditures; Expenditure, Personal; Expenditures, Personal; Personal Expenditure;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; organization & administration; standards; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics; methods;

Tree Number: N03.219.559;

History Note: 68

Technical Notes: restricted to a person's payment of health care expenditures: read MeSH definition; not for the personal finances of physicans & other health care professionals: index under PHYSICIANS; DENTISTS; NURSES; PHARMACISTS; etc., for personal non-professional expenses or under PRACTICE MANAGEMENT, MEDICAL; PRACTICE MANAGEMENT, DENTAL & similar headings for finances assoc with professional practice