@article{1443311,
      recid = {1443311},
      author = {Ma, Kinkin,},
      title = {Public medical insurance reforms in China /},
      pages = {1 online resource (259 pages) :},
      abstract = {This book investigates public medical insurance reform in  China and studies its effects from both institutional and  empirical study perspectives. It provides the reader with  academic evidence for understanding the transformation of  public medical insurance and its effect on the utilization  of healthcare services, expenditure for medical care,  individuals' financial portfolio allocation, and  well-being. The main content of the book comprises two  parts. First, institutional transformations of public  medical insurance are considered: medical insurance reform  in rural and urban China, and problems of medical insurance  reform in the country. Second, it looks at the impact of  public medical insurance reforms in China: evidence-based  on empirical studies, including determinants of  participation in medical insurance, the New Rural  Cooperative Medical Scheme and its effects on the  utilization of healthcare services, medical insurance and  its effects on out-of-pocket expenditure, risky financial  market participation, and well-being in China. This study  provides academic evidence about these issues based on  economic theories and econometric methods using many kinds  of nationwide Chinese representative survey data. The book  is highly recommended to readers who are interested in  up-to-date and in-depth empirical studies on the mechanisms  of participation in medical insurance and the impact of  public medical insurance reforms on individuals and  household behaviors in China. This volume will be of  interest to those who are interested in the Chinese  economy, social security policymakers, and scholars with an  econometric analysis background.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1443311},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-7790-8},
}