Countries worldwide confront the challenge of defining and achieving appropriate roles for government and market forces in the health sector. China--as both a developing and a transitional economy--represents an important case. This paper uses an international comparative perspective to examine...

Drawing on the 1998 China national health services survey data, this study estimated the poverty impact of two smoking-related expenses: excessive medical spending attributable to smoking and direct spending on cigarettes. The excessive medical spending attributable to smoking is estimated using...