Public Medical Insurance Reforms in China

Xinxin Ma (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

246 Seiten

2022 | 1st ed. 2022
Springer Verlag, Singapore
978-981-16-7792-2 (ISBN)

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This book investigates public medical insurance reform in China and studies its effects from both institutional and empirical study perspectives. It provides the reader with academic evidence for understanding the transformation of public medical insurance and its effect on the utilization of healthcare services, expenditure for medical care, individuals’ financial portfolio allocation, and well-being. The main content of the book comprises two parts. First, institutional transformations of public medical insurance are considered: medical insurance reform in rural and urban China, and problems of medical insurance reform in the country. Second, it looks at the impact of public medical insurance reforms in China: evidence-based on empirical studies, including determinants of participation in medical insurance, the New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme and its effects on the utilization of healthcare services, medical insurance and its effects on out-of-pocket expenditure, risky financial market participation, and well-being in China. This study provides academic evidence about these issues based on economic theories and econometric methods using many kinds of nationwide Chinese representative survey data. The book is highly recommended to readers who are interested in up-to-date and in-depth empirical studies on the mechanisms of participation in medical insurance and the impact of public medical insurance reforms on individuals and household behaviors in China. This volume will be of interest to those who are interested in the Chinese economy, social security policymakers, and scholars with an econometric analysis background.

Dr. Xinxin Ma is a professor at the Faculty of Economics, Hosei University, and she has served as the editor of the Japanese Journal of Comparative Economics, Asian Studies, and the Journal of Chinese Economics. Her current research project focuses on social security policy reform and its impacts on the labor market, population aging and labor force participation of women and the elderly, and income inequality in China and Japan. Her articles have appeared in peer-reviewed journals such as China Economic Review, China & World Economy, Journal of Asian Economics, Journal of Economics and Business, and Journal of Happiness Studies. Her recent books are Female Employment and Gender Gap in China (Springer Nature 2021), Employment, Retirement and Lifestyle in Aging East Asia (Palgrave Macmillan 2021), and Economic Transition and Labor Market Reform in China (Palgrave Macmillan 2018).

1 Introduction.- Part I Institutional Transformations of Public Medical Insurances.- 2 Medical Insurances Reform in Rural China.- 3 Medical Insurance Reform in Urban China.- 4 Issues of Public Medical Insurance Reform .- Part II Impacts of Public Medical Insurance Reform in China: Evidence Based on Empirical Studies.- 5 Determinants of Medical Insurance Participation of Urban Residents.- 6 Determinants of Participation in Medical Insurances: Comparison between Urban and Rural Residents.- 7 New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme and Its Effects on the Utilization of Healthcare Services.- 8 Medical Insurance and Out-of-Pocket Expenses on Medical Care.- 9 Medical Insurances and Financial Portfolio Choice.- 10 Public Medical Insurances and Subjective Well-being in Rural China.- Index

Erscheinungsdatum	14.12.2022
Zusatzinfo	22 Illustrations, color; 5 Illustrations, black and white; XXV, 246 p. 27 illus., 22 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Singapore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
Schlagworte	Catastrophic medical expenditure • inequality in china • Medical care in China • Medical insurance in China • New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme (NRCMS) • Urban and rural residents in China • Utilization of healthcare service in China • Well-being in China
ISBN-10	981-16-7792-1 / 9811677921
ISBN-13	978-981-16-7792-2 / 9789811677922
Zustand	Neuware