We report the results of a review of the Chinese‐and English‐language literatures on
service delivery in China, asking how well China's health‐care providers perform and what …

This paper provides a survey of the recent empirical research on China's 'old'health system
(ie prior to the spate of reforms beginning in 2003). It argues that this research has …

China has recently unveiled an ambitious new health-care reform plan, entailing a doubling
of government health spending as well as a number of concrete reforms. While the details of …

Objectives To determine whether China's New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme (NCMS),
which aims to provide health insurance to 800 million rural citizens and to correct distortions …

The primary objective of this paper is to evaluate the impact of Taiwan's National Health
Insurance program (NHI), established in 1995, on improving elderly access to care and …

Since economic liberalization in the late 1970s, China's health care providers have grown
heavily reliant on revenue from drugs, which they both prescribe and sell. To curb abuse …

Do citizen and police initiatives have any impact on the incidence and fear of crime? This
volume brings together studies, undertaken by well-respected criminal justice scholars, of …

Since 1978 when it embarked on sweeping agricultural and industrial reforms, China's
economic growth has been remarkable. Its success in transforming itself within just three …

In Poland, as in many other countries, the use of capitation payment schemes in primary
health care is popular. Despite this popularity, the subject literature discusses its role in …

Many low‐income countries are implementing non‐profit medical insurance to increase
access to health services, especially among low‐income households, and to raise additional …