The impact of health insurance on health outcomes and spending of the elderly: Evidence from china's new cooperative medical scheme

Health Economics (United Kingdom)

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 672-691

  Cheng, Lingguo ^a   Liu, Hong ^b   Zhang, Ye ^a   Shen, Ke ^c   Zeng, Yi ^d,e  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CENTRAL UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS   (China)

^c FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

China; health insurance; health outcome; health spending; the elderly

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHINA; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL INDICATOR; COGNITION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; GERIATRIC CARE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; KERNEL METHOD; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MEDICAL SERVICE; MORTALITY; NEW COOPERATIVE MEDICAL SCHEME; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OUTPATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPENSITY SCORE; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC HEALTH INSURANCE; RURAL POPULATION; SELECTION BIAS; AGE; AGED; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; SELF REPORT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS; VERY ELDERLY;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHINA; COGNITION; FEMALE; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MORTALITY; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; RURAL POPULATION; SELF REPORT; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84927800432     PISSN: 10579230     EISSN: 10991050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hec.3053     Document Type: Article

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