This paper explores the impact of the New Cooperative Medical Scheme (NCMS), a newly
adopted public health insurance program in rural China. Using a longitudinal sample drawn …

This paper examines China's health care from a system perspective and draws some
lessons for less developed nations. A decade ago, Chinese macro-health policy shifted its …

Since the reform and opening up in 1978, China has begun a period of rapid
industrialization and urbanization. Along with an increasing number of rural people …

This study examines the factors that influence patient choice of medical provider in the three-
tier health care system in rural China: village health posts, township health centres, and …

Although the New Co-operative Medical System (NCMS) was expected to operate in all rural
Chinese counties by the end of 2008, county governments were given significant leeway in …

This paper examines the role of social learning in household enrollment decisions for the
New Cooperative Medical Scheme (NCMS) in rural China by estimating a static game with …

This paper assesses the determinants of the enrolment in the New Rural Cooperative
Medical Scheme (NRCMS), a heavily subsidized voluntary health insurance scheme in rural …

We analyzed trends in rates of health insurance coverage in China in the period 1991–2011
and the association of health insurance with hypertension and diabetes based on data from …

This review aims at providing synthetic information with scientific evidence on the trends in
the malaria events from 1960 to 2011, with the hope that it will help policy makers to take …

Over the last two decades an economic reform paradigm has dominated social security and
health research: economic reform policies have defined its parameters, established its …