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Jui-fen Rachel Lu
Researcher at Chang Gung University
Publications - 27
Citations - 6668
Jui-fen Rachel Lu is an academic researcher from Chang Gung University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Health care & Public health. The author has an hindex of 13, co-authored 25 publications receiving 6298 citations. Previous affiliations of Jui-fen Rachel Lu include China Europe International Business School.
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The MOS 36-item Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36): III. Tests of data quality, scaling assumptions, and reliability across diverse patient groups.
TL;DR: Findings support the use of the SF-36 survey across the diverse populations studied and identify population groups in which use of standardized health status measures may or may not be problematic.
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Catastrophic payments for health care in Asia
Eddy van Doorslaer,Owen O'Donnell,R.P. Rannan-Eliya,Aparnaa Somanathan,Shiva Raj Adhikari,Charu C. Garg,Deni Harbianto,Alejandro N. Herrin,Mohammed N. Huq,Shamsia Ibragimova,Anup Karan,Tae-jin Lee,Gabriel M. Leung,Jui-fen Rachel Lu,Chiu Wan Ng,Badri Raj Pande,Rachel H. Racelis,Sihai Tao,Keith Y.K. Tin,Kanjana Tisayaticom,Laksono Trisnantoro,Chitpranee Vasavid,Yuxin Zhao +22 more
TL;DR: This work estimates the magnitude and distribution of OOP payments for health care in fourteen countries and territories accounting for 81% of the Asian population and focuses on payments that are catastrophic, in the sense of severely disrupting household living standards, and approximate such payments by those absorbing a large fraction of household resources.
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Does Universal Health Insurance Make Health Care Unaffordable? Lessons From Taiwan
TL;DR: It is found that Taiwan's single-payer NHI system enabled Taiwan to manage health spending inflation and that the resulting savings largely offset the incremental cost of covering the previously uninsured.
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Who pays for health care in Asia
Owen O'Donnell,Eddy van Doorslaer,Ravi P. Rannan-Eliya,Aparnaa Somanathan,Shiva Raj Adhikari,Baktygul Akkazieva,Deni Harbianto,Charu C. Garg,Piya Hanvoravongchai,Alejandro N. Herrin,Mohammed N. Huq,Shamsia Ibragimova,Anup Karan,Soonman Kwon,Gabriel M. Leung,Jui-fen Rachel Lu,Yasushi Ohkusa,Badri Raj Pande,Rachel H. Racelis,Keith Y.K. Tin,Kanjana Tisayaticom,Laksono Trisnantoro,Quan Wan,Bong-Min Yang,Yuxin Zhao +24 more
TL;DR: This work estimates the distributional incidence of health care financing in 13 Asian territories that account for 55% of the Asian population and finds that in most low-/middle-income countries, the better-off not only pay more, they also get more health care.
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The extended QUALIFLEX method for multiple criteria decision analysis based on interval type-2 fuzzy sets and applications to medical decision making
TL;DR: This paper develops an extended QUALIFLEX method for handling multiple criteria decision-making problems in the context of interval type-2 fuzzy sets and proposes the concordance/discordance index, the weighted concordances/discords index, and the comprehensive concords index as evaluative criteria of the chosen hypothesis for ranking the alternatives.