Health payment-induced poverty under China's New Cooperative Medical Scheme in rural Shandong
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Catastrophic medical payment and financial protection in rural China: evidence from the New Cooperative Medical Scheme in Shandong Province.
OBJECTIVE To measure the impact of China's New Cooperative Medical Scheme (NCMS) on catastrophic medical payments of rural households in Linyi County, Shandong Province. METHOD In 2005, from a stratified cluster sample of 3101 rural households, we identified 375 households that might be at risk of catastrophic payments by searching through NCMS claims and interviewing key informants. We inter...
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عنوان ژورنال: Health Policy and Planning
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0268-1080,1460-2237
DOI: 10.1093/heapol/czq010