Catastrophic health expenditure and rural household impoverishment in China: What role does the new cooperative health insurance scheme play?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Li, Ye ^a   Wu, Qunhong ^a   Liu, Chaojie ^b   Kang, Zheng ^a   Xie, Xin ^a   Yin, Hui ^a   Jiao, Mingli ^a   Liu, Guoxiang ^a   Hao, Yanhua ^a   Ning, Ning ^a  

^a HARBIN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHINA; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH INSURANCE; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POVERTY; RURAL AREA; SOCIAL STATUS; ECONOMICS; FAMILY SIZE; RURAL HEALTH CARE; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TERMINAL DISEASE;

CATASTROPHIC ILLNESS; CHINA; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HUMANS; INSURANCE, MAJOR MEDICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POVERTY; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 84899580211     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0093253     Document Type: Article

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