Catastrophic outpatient health payments and health payment-induced poverty under China's new rural cooperative medical scheme

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 64-85

  Yang, Wei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Catastrophic health payments; China; Health payment induced poverty; New cooperativemedical scheme; Social health insurance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84931336937     PISSN: 20405790     EISSN: 20405804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aepp/ppu017     Document Type: Article

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