Health Insurance Benefit Design and Healthcare Utilization in Northern Rural China

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Wang, Hong ^a,b   Liu, Yu ^a   Zhu, Yan ^c   Xue, Lei ^c   Dale, Martha ^a   Sipsma, Heather ^a   Bradley, Elizabeth ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BILL AND MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION   (United States)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTPATIENT; PATIENT CARE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RURAL AREA; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHINA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; INSURANCE BENEFITS; INSURANCE, HEALTH; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POVERTY; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 84869799973     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0050395     Document Type: Article

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