National Essential Medicines List and policy practice: A case study of China's health care reform

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Tian, Xin ^a   Song, Yaran ^b   Zhang, Xinping ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

Essential medicines list; Policy; Supplemented list

Indexed keywords

ESSENTIAL DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHINA; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; MANAGEMENT; PUBLICATION; STANDARD;

CHINA; DRUGS, ESSENTIAL; FORMULARIES AS TOPIC; HEALTH CARE REFORM; HEALTH POLICY; ORGANIZATIONAL CASE STUDIES; POLICY MAKING;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84868698133     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-12-401     Document Type: Article

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