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The Effects of Social Health Insurance Reform on People's Out-of-Pocket Health Expenditure in China. The Mediating Role of the Institutional Arrangement.
Kai Liu
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Description for The Effects of Social Health Insurance Reform on People's Out-of-Pocket Health Expenditure in China. The Mediating Role of the Institutional Arrangement.
Hardback. Examining the relationship between social health insurance (SHI) and out-of-pocket expenditures (OOP), this book synthesises the role of the institutional arrangement of social health insurance in China, the interaction between the stakeholders in health sectors, and of the relationship between healthcare institutions, actors, and policy outcomes. Num Pages: 206 pages, 10 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JKS; KCA; LNTM; MBPR. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 479.
This study examines and explains the relationship between social health insurance (SHI) participation and out-of-pocket expenditures (OOP) as well as the mediating role the institutional arrangement of SHI plays in this relationship in China. Embracing a new institutionalist approach, it develops two analytical perspectives: determination, which identifies the mechanisms of social health insurance, and strategic interaction, which explores the interaction among social health insurance agencies, healthcare providers, patients, and institutions. It reveals the poor performance of social health insurance in decreasing out-of-pocket health expenditures caused by a trade-off between the reimbursement, behavior management, and purchasing mechanisms of social health insurance ... Read more
This study examines and explains the relationship between social health insurance (SHI) participation and out-of-pocket expenditures (OOP) as well as the mediating role the institutional arrangement of SHI plays in this relationship in China. Embracing a new institutionalist approach, it develops two analytical perspectives: determination, which identifies the mechanisms of social health insurance, and strategic interaction, which explores the interaction among social health insurance agencies, healthcare providers, patients, and institutions. It reveals the poor performance of social health insurance in decreasing out-of-pocket health expenditures caused by a trade-off between the reimbursement, behavior management, and purchasing mechanisms of social health insurance ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Springer Verlag, Singapore Singapore
Number of pages
206
Condition
New
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
Singapore, Singapore
ISBN
9789811017766
SKU
V9789811017766
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99-15
About Kai Liu
Prof. Liu is Assistant Professor of School of Labor and Human Resources, Renmin University of China. He develops his expertise in health policy, social policy in China, and comparative social security system. He visited University of California, Berkeley to study health policy and health economics in 2013. He won the Fulbright Scholarship and visited Harvard University to conduct a comparative ... Read more
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