The role of for-profit hospitals in medical expenditures: Evidence from aggregate data in China

The health care delivery system in China, which is dominated by state hospitals, is being increasingly challenged by public concerns: it is too expensive and too inaccessible, a complaint commonly phrased as “ kai bin nan, kan bin gui” in Chinese. As the penetration of for-profit hospitals has gradu...

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Volume:	20
Main Author:	Liu, Gordon G Li, Lin Hou, Xiaohui Xu, Judy Hyslop, Daniel
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Place of publication:	NEW YORK Elsevier Inc 2009 ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC Elsevier
published in:	China economic review Vol. 20; no. 4; pp. 625 - 633
Data of publication:	2009
ISSN:	1043-951X 1873-7781
EISSN:	1873-7781
Discipline:	Economics
Bibliography:	China http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo
Series:	China Economic Review
Subjects:	For-profit hospitals Medical expenditures China Fixed-effect models Economics Business & Economics Social Sciences For-profit hospitals Medical expenditures Fixed-effect models China China I11 I18 For-profit hospitals Medical expenditures China Fixed-effect models COST COMPETITION OWNERSHIP EFFICIENCY CARE
Online Access:	Fulltext
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