An innovative participatory method for newly democratic societies: The " civic groups forum"on national health insurance reform in Taiwan

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 896-903

  Deng, Chung Yeh ^a   Wu, Chia Ling ^b  

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

" Civic groups forum"; Deliberative democracy; National health insurance reform; Newly democratic societies; Participatory methods; Taiwan

Indexed keywords

DEMOCRACY; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH INSURANCE; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; WELFARE REFORM;

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; EMPOWERMENT; HEALTH CARE POLICY; MEDICAL SOCIETY; NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SKILL; SOCIAL WELFARE; SOCIETY; TAIWAN; TRADE UNION; WITNESS; BEHAVIOR; CONSUMER; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; METHODOLOGY; OBSERVATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; POLITICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC HEALTH;

TAIWAN;

CONSUMER PARTICIPATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE REFORM; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LABOR UNIONS; MALE; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; OBSERVATION; POLITICS; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL WELFARE; TAIWAN;

EID: 77950361838     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2009.10.053     Document Type: Article

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