Can health care financing policy be emulated? The Singaporean medical savings accounts model and its Shanghai replica

Journal of Public Health

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 209-214

  Dong, Weizhen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cost containment; Health care access equity; Health care financing model replication; Medical savings accounts; Shanghai; Singapore

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHINA; COST; COST CONTROL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE FINANCING; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POLICY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIOECONOMICS; URBAN AREA;

CHINA; COST CONTROL; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; HEALTH CARE RATIONING; HUMANS; MEDICAL SAVINGS ACCOUNTS; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; SINGAPORE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 33748784040     PISSN: 17413842     EISSN: 17413850     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pubmed/fdl023     Document Type: Article

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