Controls on medicine pricing have been promulgated 27 times since 1997, but the measures have not had significant impact in reducing financial burden for service users.
ICC, an indicator of reliability, was 0.77 for "Time-dependent burden", 0.73 for "Emotional burden", 0.70 for "Existential burden", 0.80 for "Physical burden", 0.68 for "Service-related burden", and 0.70 for "Total care burden" (Table 4).
In March 2009, China's Healthcare Reform Plan was formally released to reduce the residents' economic burden for medical services, mitigate the difficulties in affordability and accessibility of medical service, and provide safe, effective, convenient, inexpensive health services for universal coverage.
Should the government contemplate using the precept to cover the gap, it would need to think about whether it is content to allow Surrey taxpayers to carry so large a burden for local services when they pay more income tax to the national exchequer than any other region outside London.
This implies that a large number of healthy pregnancies are being subjected to unnecessary invasive procedures – a healthcare risk for mother and unborn child, as well as a considerable financial burden for healthcare services.
Cardiovascular disease (CVD), which includes heart attacks and strokes, has a major impact on the lives of affected individuals and treatment costs are a significant burden for health services.
Such changes may save lives and reduce the extension of disability, thus diminishing disruption to individuals and their families, and also the economic burden for public services [ 8, 11, 12].
The results presented suggest that reflex testing for LS would be a cost-effective use of limited NHS resources and in the base case of testing in newly-diagnosed CRC patients aged under 50 years would not create an excessive additional burden for colonoscopy services.
