years (2000-2008) and 24 township hospitals randomly selected in Weifang prefecture (Shandong province, China), this article …. The analyses underline also that referral practices between health facilities levels should be reinforced and that the …

In the rural health-care organization of China, township hospitals ensure the delivery of basic medical services … questioned, mainly with the implementation since 2003 of the reform of health insurance in rural areas. From a database of 24 … also that in the context of China, the efficiency of township hospitals is influenced by unobservable factors. …

1989-2006 is a period of the start and the end of deregulation of Chinese health care sector and of disintegration of … rural cooperative insurance system. During this period, the government health policy has turned healthcare providers all … patients surveyed roughly in the same villages in 9 Chinese provinces to compare their health choice behaviors with the …

Since 2003, the New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme is gradually implemented in China, in order first, to increase … access of the poor to health services, reduce out-of-pocket expenditures and avoid catastrophic health expenditures and …