Launching Hong Kong’s Healthcare Financing Reform: why continued inaction? 87
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Hong Kong Healthcare and Finance Reform
The study Improving Hong Kong's Health Care System: Why and For Whom? (the "Harvard Report") published earlier this year makes it clear that the Hong Kong health system and its financing require reform. The Report also identifies many of the reasons which in my view deserve to be taken seriously why this is necessary and should not be delayed. The Harvard Report proposes a new approach to finan...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Asia Pacific Journal of Health Management
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2204-3136,1833-3818
DOI: 10.24083/apjhm.v11i3.167