...Yiqiu Wang; Maria Porter; Songqing Jin Purpose The purpose of this paper is to study the effects of introducing a health insurance program in rural China between 2004 and 2006, the New Cooperative Medical Scheme (NCMS). Design/methodology/approach The authors apply difference in difference...

... Publishing Limited 2012 China Medical insurance Outpatients Patients Rural regions Health services Adverse selection Health insurance Suburban district China has been looking for an effective insurance system to protect its rural population from impoverishment associated with medical...

...H. Holly Wang; H. Holly Wang; Shaomin Huang; Linxiu Zhang; Scott Rozelle; Yuanyuan Yan Purpose Since 1999, China has undergone reform of its healthcare system. City‐based social health insurance (SHI) is the primary form of current health insurance, supplemented by various commercial health...

... than 10 per cent of the rural population had access to health insurance to one where over 80 per cent had the opportunity to participate in these programs. The purpose of this paper is to investigate how NRCMS affects equity goals in access to health care and explore the gender‐specific determinants...