Evaluation of a pilot cooperative medical scheme in rural China: impact on gender patterns of health care utilization and prescription practices

The impact of rural mutual health care o

The impact of rural mutual health care on health status: evaluation of a social experiment in rural China

✍ Hong Wang; Winnie Yip; Licheng Zhang; William C. Hsiao 📂 Article 📅 2009 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 149 KB 👁 2 views

## Abstract Despite widespread efforts to expand health insurance in developing countries, there is scant evidence as to whether doing so actually improves people's health. This paper aims to fill this gap by evaluating the impact of Rural Mutual Health Care (RMHC), a community‐based health insuran