Good and bad news from China's new cooperative medical scheme

IDS Bulletin

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 95-106

  Zhang, Linxiu ^a   Yi, Hongmei ^a   Rozelle, Scott ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOPERATIVE SECTOR; HEALTH SERVICES; HOUSEHOLD SURVEY; MEDICINE; RURAL POPULATION;

CHINA;

EID: 77956910739     PISSN: 02655012     EISSN: 17595436     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1759-5436.2010.00156.x     Document Type: Article

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