The impact of universal National Health Insurance on population health: the experience of Taiwan
โ Scribed by Yue-Chune Lee; Yu-Tung Huang; Yi-Wen Tsai; Shiuh-Ming Huang; Ken N Kuo; Martin McKee; Ellen Nolte
- Book ID
- 115018809
- Publisher
- BioMed Central
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 244 KB
- Volume
- 10
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1472-6963
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## Abstract The primary objective of this paper is to evaluate the impact of Taiwan's National Health Insurance program (NHI), established in 1995, on improving elderly access to care and health status. Further, we estimate the extent to which NHI reduces gaps in access and health across income gro
## SUMMARY A recent paper estimates the effects of Taiwan's National Health Insurance (NHI) on the elderly and concludes that NHI greatly increased the medical care utilization of the elderly but did not reduce their mortality. Using more recent and more accurate mortality data of the same group of