China's urban and rural residents in equity in health research 1 Introduction Since 2000 the World Health Organization (WHO) in the 191 ranking of national health protection system in China's medical and health financing fairness ranked No. 4 after the countdown, [1] China's growing ur...
Nearly 44.3 million people were covered by China's urban and rural subsistence allowances by the end of last year, a senior civil affairs official said on Friday. The average subsistence allowances standard increased by 105.3 percent for urban residents and 188.3 percent for rural...
The government has launched an urban-rural integration policy for social health insurance to reduce disparities in access and health outcomes. We adopt a difference-in-differences propensity score matching approach to estimate the effects of this integration policy on health care utilization, financial ...
This is part of the country's efforts to narrow the gap in health services between urban and rural areas. Traditional Chinese service centers have been set up in more than 30,000 health centers in towns, townships and communities, according to the newspaper. The standard for the per capita ...
(1) Background: We aim to measure the urban-rural inequality of opportunity in healthcare in China based on the theory of Equality of Opportunity (EOp). (2) Methods: Following the compensation principle, we establish a decomposition strategy for the fairness gap, which we use for the measure...
BEIJING, March 5 (Xinhua) -- China will advance integrated urban-rural development and coordinated regional development, according to a government work report submitted Tuesday to the national legislature for deliberation. The country will actively promote new urbanization and enhance coordinated regional ...
This article concentrates on analysing social networks and health among rural-urban migrants in China. The function that social networks substantially play on the issue of health among migrants in China has rarely been discussed in studies. On the basis of a case study of a migrant community in...
BEIJING, May 13 (Xinhua) -- China plans to fully establish a unified national medical insurance service for both urban and rural citizens across the country, according to a circular issued by the National Healthcare Security Administration and the Ministry of Finance. ...
Primary care facilities were the principal sources of information for this study, which focused on urban community health centers (CHCs) and rural township health centers (THCs). The Chinese health system is characterized by a three tier healthcare delivery system. The urban three tier system com...
Regulatory barriers to equity in a health system in transition: a qualitative study in Bulgaria Socioeconomic FactorsNeeds AssessmentChildChild, PreschoolRural PopulationUrban PopulationChild Health Servicesp pBackground/p pHealth reforms in Bulgaria have ... B Rechel,CM Blackburn,NJ Spencer,... - ...