Chinese health care system and clinical epidemiology

Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 9, Issue , 2017, Pages 167-178

  Sun, Yuelian ^a   Gregersen, Hans ^b   Yuan, Wei ^c  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

China; Clinical epidemiology; Health care; Insurance; Registry

Indexed keywords

AGED; CHILD; CHINA; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICAL RESEARCH; POPULATION MODEL; REGISTER; RURAL POPULATION; SCIENTIST; STUDENT; UNEMPLOYMENT; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 85015748482     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11791349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/CLEP.S106258     Document Type: Review

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