New evidence on the impact of China's New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme and its implications for rural primary healthcare: Multivariate difference-in-difference analysis

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 341, Issue 7779, 2010, Pages 929-

  Babiarz, Kimberly Singer ^a   Miller, Grant ^b   Yi, Hongmei ^c   Zhang, Linxiu ^c   Rozelle, Scott ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

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

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHINA; CHINESE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INCOME; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE DIFFERENCE IN DIFFERENCE ANALYSIS; PRESCRIPTION; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; REIMBURSEMENT; RURAL HEALTH CARE;

AMBULATORY CARE; CHINA; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES;

EID: 78049481263     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.c5617     Document Type: Article

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