The effect of critical illness insurance in China

Medicine (United States)

Volumn 97, Issue 27, 2018, Pages

  Fang, Pengqian ^a   Pan, Zhengqiong ^a   Zhang, Xiaoyan ^b   Bai, Xue ^a   Gong, Yanhong ^a   Yin, Xiaoxv ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b HUBEI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

China; critical illness insurance; health insurance

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHINA; CITY; COMPENSATION; CRITICAL ILLNESS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REIMBURSEMENT; TERMINAL DISEASE; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; MALE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

CATASTROPHIC ILLNESS; CHINA; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HUMANS; INSURANCE, HEALTH; INSURANCE, HEALTH, REIMBURSEMENT; MALE;

EID: 85049999511     PISSN: 00257974     EISSN: 15365964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MD.0000000000011362     Document Type: Article

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