In Brief: Congressional Black Caucus Spring Health Braintrust focuses on universal health care.

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Chamberlin
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Universal Health Care ◽  
Congressional Black Caucus ◽  
Black Caucus ◽  
Universal Health

scholarly journals Creating universal health care in Ireland: A legal context

Health Policy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manfred Lau ◽  
Charles Larkin ◽  
Michael Harty ◽  
Shaen Corbet
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Universal Health Care ◽  
Legal Context ◽  
Universal Health

scholarly journals P1490MONTHLY TREND AND SEASONALITY IN ACUTE AND CHRONIC HEMODIALYSIS; RESULT FROM NATIONWIDE DATABASE OF MEDICAL BILLS OF UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE INSURANCE SYSTEM IN JAPAN

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (Supplement_3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryoya Tsunoda ◽  
Hirayasu Kai ◽  
Masahide Kondo ◽  
Naohiro Mitsutake ◽  
Kunihiro Yamagata
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Seasonal Variation ◽  
Chronic Hemodialysis ◽  
Universal Health Care ◽  
Health Care Insurance ◽  
Individual Data ◽  
Insurance System ◽  
Number Of Patients ◽  
Medical Bills ◽  
Universal Health

Abstract Background and Aims Although knowing the accurate number of patients of hemodialysis important, data collection is a hard task. Establishing a simplified and prompt method of data collection for perspective hemodialysis is strongly needed. In Japan, there is a universal health care insurance system that covers almost all population. This study aimed to know a seasonal variation of hemodialysis patients using the big database of medical bills in Japan. Method Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare established a big database named National Database (NDB), that consists of medical bills data in Japan. All bills data were sent to the data server from The Examination and Payment Agency, the organization that receives all medical bills from each medical institution and judge validity for payment. Each record of the database consists of bill data of one patient of a month for each medical institution. All data were anonymized before saved in the server and gave virtual patient identification number (VPID) that is unique for each patient. VPID is a hash value calculated by patient’s individual data such as name, date of birth, so that the value cannot be duplicate. Calculation of VPID is executed by an irreversible way to make it difficult to decrypt VPID into patient’s individual data. This database includes all information about medical care of whole population in Japan except for patients not under the insurance system (patients under public assistance system, victims of the war, or any other specified people under the public medical expense). Using this database, we investigated monthly number of patients who were recorded to be undergone hemodialysis (HD, includes hemodiafiltration). We searched chronic HD patients who have undergone HD on the month and continued it for 3 months, and acute HD patients who have discontinued HD within 3 months. Results In NDB, the number of chronic HD patients under public insurance system who confirmed to have undergone HD in December 2014 was 284 433. In contrast, the number of HD patients identified from the year-end survey by Japanese Society of Dialysis Therapy in the same year was of 311 193, but this number includes patients not under insurance system. Incidence rate of acute HD in Japan was persisted at 30-39 per million per month. There is a reproducible seasonal variation in number of acute HD patients, that increases in every winter and decreasing in every summer. The significantly highest frequency was observed in February(38.5/million/month) compared with September(30.6/million/month), the lowest month of the year (p<0.01). Conclusion We could show the trend in number of HD patients using nationwide bills data. Seasonality in some clinical factors in patients under chronic hemodialysis such as blood pressure, intradialytic body weight gain, morbidity of congestive heart failure, and, mortality, has been reported in many observational studies. Also, there are a few former reports about seasonality in AKI. However, a report about acute RRT is few. From our knowledge, this is the first report that revealed monthly dynamics of HD in a whole nation and rising risk of acute HD in winter. The true mechanism of this seasonality remains unclear. We have to establish a method to collect clinical data such as prevalence of CKD, causative diseases of AKI, kinds of precedent operations, and medications in connection with billing data.

scholarly journals Geographical Variation and Factors Associated with Colorectal Cancer Mortality in a Universal Health Care System

2014 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 191-197 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahmoud Torabi ◽  
Christopher Green ◽  
Zoann Nugent ◽  
Salaheddin M Mahmud ◽  
Alain A Demers ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Colorectal Cancer ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Geographical Variation ◽  
Geographical Area ◽  
Capital City ◽  
Universal Health Care ◽  
Screening Programs ◽  
Crc Screening ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Universal Health

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the geographical variation and small geographical area level factors associated with colorectal cancer (CRC) mortality.METHODS: Information regarding CRC mortality was obtained from the population-based Manitoba Cancer Registry, population counts were obtained from Manitoba’s universal health care plan Registry and characteristics of the area of residence were obtained from the 2001 Canadian census. Bayesian spatial Poisson mixed models were used to evaluate the geographical variation of CRC mortality and Poisson regression models for determining associations with CRC mortality. Time trends of CRC mortality according to income group were plotted using joinpoint regression.RESULTS: The southeast (mortality rate ratio [MRR] 1.31 [95% CI 1.12 to 1.54) and southcentral (MRR 1.62 [95% CI 1.35 to 1.92]) regions of Manitoba had higher CRC mortality rates than suburban Winnipeg (Manitoba’s capital city). Between 1985 and 1996, CRC mortality did not vary according to household income; however, between 1997 and 2009, individuals residing in the highest-income areas were less likely to die from CRC (MRR 0.77 [95% CI 0.65 to 0.89]). Divergence in CRC mortality among individuals residing in different income areas increased over time, with rising CRC mortality observed in the lowest income areas and declining CRC mortality observed in the higher income areas.CONCLUSIONS: Individuals residing in lower income neighbourhoods experienced rising CRC mortality despite residing in a jurisdiction with universal health care and should receive increased efforts to reduce CRC mortality. These findings should be of particular interest to the provincial CRC screening programs, which may be able to reduce the disparities in CRC mortality by reducing the disparities in CRC screening participation.

scholarly journals Towards achievement of universal health care in India by 2020: a call to action

The Lancet ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 377 (9767) ◽  
pp. 760-768 ◽  
Author(s):  
K Srinath Reddy ◽  
Vikram Patel ◽  
Prabhat Jha ◽  
Vinod K Paul ◽  
AK Shiva Kumar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Universal Health Care ◽  
Call To Action ◽  
Universal Health

scholarly journals The Red Eye Special

1994 ◽  
Vol 2 (5) ◽  
pp. 3-5
Author(s):  
Jean-Paul Revel
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
New Orleans ◽  
Basic Research ◽  
Service Work ◽  
Universal Health Care ◽  
Red Eye ◽  
Teaching Administration ◽  
Care Package ◽  
Universal Health

I am a professor at a university, and like most of my colleagues I divide my time between teaching, administration, service work and basic research. Of all these activities it is the research that I and my students have dene that has been most important for the advancement of our respective careers. Research is indeed the life blood of science and the meeting of MSA in New Orleans this month, will be an occasion to celebrate this and to show each other what we have been doing since we saw each other in Cincinnati last year.I am driven to write this column because some nights ago I watched a program on the problems surrounding the delivery of the impending “universal” health care package. On the stage were Senators Dole and Mitchell, along with people representing different opinions about the issues at hand.

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