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As part of this intention, public health insurance was subdivided into three separate insurance schemes: the Primary Healthcare Fund, the Social Health Insurance Fund and the Emergency, Chronic and Critical Illness Fund, in addition to the NHIF being abolished together with its parent Act and replaced with the SHA, which would be responsible ...
Germany has the world's oldest national social health insurance system, [1] with origins dating back to Otto von Bismarck's Sickness Insurance Law of 1883. [2] [3] In Britain, the National Insurance Act 1911 included national social health insurance for primary care (not specialist or hospital care), initially for about one-third of the population—employed working class wage earners, but not ...
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The program was a form of national health insurance established to provide equitable access and financial coverage for basic health care services to Ghanaian citizens. [1] Ghana's universal healthcare system has been described as the most successful healthcare system on the African continent by business magnate Bill Gates . [ 2 ]
Most private clinics in the community are run by nurses. In 2011 there were 65,000 nurses on their council's register. A smaller number of private clinics, mostly in the urban areas, are run by clinical officers and doctors who numbered 8,600 and 7,100 respectively in 2011.
The common denominator for all such programs is some form of government action aimed at broadly extending access to health care and setting minimum standards. Most implement universal health care through legislation, regulation, and taxation. Legislation and regulation direct what care must be provided, to whom, and on what basis.
The hospital is administered by a 10-person board of directors, chaired by George Ooko, a non-physician, non-executive board member. The chief executive officer is Dr Evanson Kamuri. [5]
The National Health Insurance Fund or VLK (Lithuanian: Valstybinė ligonių kasa) is a key part of the healthcare system in Lithuania. It was established in 1993. It was established in 1993. The fund finances primary care largely by capitation payments, with some fees for service and performance related pay.