NHIS definition

NHIS means Nottinghamshire Health Informatics Service
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NHIS means the national health insurance scheme regulated by the Recipient’s National Health Insurance Act, 2003 (Act 650).
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NHIS means National Health Insurance Scheme as defined in the National Health Insurance Act of the Laws of the Federation of Nigeria;
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Examples of NHIS in a sentence

  • The linkage of the MEPS to the previous year’s NHIS provides additional data for longitudinal analytic purposes.

  • The set of households selected for each panel of the MEPS HC is a subsample of households participating in the previous year’s National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics.

  • In 2006, the NHIS implemented a new sample design, which included Asian persons in addition to households with Black and Hispanic persons in the oversampling of minority populations.

  • The NHIS sampling frame provides a nationally representative sample of the U.S. civilian non-institutionalized population and reflects an oversample of Blacks and Hispanics.

  • The NHIS sampling frame provides a nationally representative sample of the U.S. civilian non-institutionalized population and reflects an oversample of blacks and Hispanics.

  • In 2006, the NHIS implemented a new sample design, which included Asian persons in addition to households with black and Hispanic persons in the oversampling of minority populations.

  • The MEPS HC augments NHIS by selecting a sample of NHIS respondents, collecting additional data on their health care expenditures, and linking these data with additional information collected from the respondents’ medical providers, employers, and insurance providers.

  • However, beginning with the 2002 Point-in-Time PUF, the variance strata and PSUs were developed to be compatible with all future PUFs until the NHIS design changed.

  • There were 203 variance estimation strata, each stratum with either two or three variance estimation PSUs. From Panel 12 of the 2007 files, a new set of variance strata and PSUs were developed because of the introduction of a new NHIS design.

  • These variance strata (VARSTR values) have been numbered from 1001 to 1165 so that they can be readily distinguished from those developed under the former NHIS sample design in the event that data are pooled for several years.


More Definitions of NHIS

NHIS means National Health Insurance Scheme as defined in the NHIS Act CAP. N42. Laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria;
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NHIS means the National Health Insurance Services in Korea.
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NHIS means Sistema Nacional Integrado de Salud, the Borrower’s National Health Integrated System created pursuant to Law No. 17,930 of December 19, 2005 and Law 18,211 of December 5, 2007.
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NHIS means the Borrower’s National Health Insurance System developed under the Project.
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