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safety net

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Any mechanism of health care provision for uninsured patients by direct, i.e., mandated, federal/state funding or indirect/tacit write-off mechanisms
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safety net

Health access Any mechanism of health care provision for uninsured Pts by direct–ie, mandated–federal/state funding or indirect/tacit–write-offs vehicles
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The Department of Social Service is also working to prepare a central database under the Management Information System (MIS) to identify all the real extreme poor under the social safety net programme.
Vision for the future: From Safety Net to Universal Social Protection
This fragmentation has made the safety net patchier, slower and less consistent, making crises costlier.
Developing and transition countries spend an average of 1.5 percent of GDP on social safety net programs.
As such, the World Bank said the Philippines, which has a higher safety net coverage and lower humanitarian spending, 'indicated a greater readiness and suitability for their safety nets to address the risk of shocks.'
Wan Mohamad Ghazali Nor, director of DBKL community development and urban wellbeing department, told Bernama that the safety net was only installed at Seri Pantai PPR at the moment.
Prior research on the impact of the MA reform about use of care from the safety net is limited (Ku et al.
Using census data, administrative data from safety net programs, and interviews with nonprofit leaders in the Chicago, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C.
FQHCs are an essential part of the nation's overall health care safety net, serving 25 million people annually, seven in 10 of whom live at or below the federal poverty level.
All countries that wish to have an effective social safety net must use its legal system and adopt mandatory regulations that guarantee social protection for its citizens from societal risks.
The result: Safety Net Assistance, unique to New York State, is projected to cost Niagara County taxpayers $7.8 million this year, or more than 10 percent of county tax revenues.
University of Arkansas Medical Sciences (UAMS) Medical Center in Little Rock expects to break even for the year after generally running a deficit as a safety net hospital.
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