Risk-adjusted resource allocation: Using Taiwan's national health insurance as an example

Asia-Pacific Journal of Public Health

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2015, Pages NP958-NP971

  Chang, Hsien Yen ^a   Bodycombe, David P ^a   Huang, Weng Foung ^b   Weiner, Jonathan P ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Adjusted Clinical Group; National Health Insurance; resource allocation; risk adjustment; Taiwan

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TAIWAN; UTILIZATION;

HEALTH CARE RATIONING; HEALTH SERVICES; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RISK ADJUSTMENT; TAIWAN;

EID: 84926287625     PISSN: 10105395     EISSN: 19412479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1010539512471073     Document Type: Article

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