Health insurance benefit design and healthcare utilization in northern rural China.
BACKGROUND: Poverty due to illness has become a substantial social problem in rural China since the collapse of the rural Cooperative Medical System in the early 1980s. Although the Chinese government introduced the New Rural Cooperative Medical Schemes (NRCMS) in 2003, the associations between diff...
Main Authors: | Hong Wang, Yu Liu, Yan Zhu, Lei Xue, Martha Dale, Heather Sipsma, Elizabeth Bradley |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2012-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3503891?pdf=render |
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