model, and control for the non-exogeneity of health insurance. The empirical findings support the hypothesis of a return to … the hometown for migrant workers with poor health. Apart from residency permits and income, the social integration of …

In China, with the economic reforms leading to the raise in agricultural productivity, the rural healthcare …

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 …

The usual manner of describing inequality in a population, involves income distributions. China has experienced rapid … as well. Education and health care have become less accessible due to increased costs linked to the decentralization of … the financing of such services. The changing face of inequality in China is therefore not confined to income. As such this …

individual heterogeneity and differences in health status and wages reduces the variability in sick leave probability between …

During the 2003-2006 period, subjective health status in Chinese rural areas improved. We used a unique household … better about their health status when covered by the NCMS. However, there is no intensive margin: an individual's self …-assessed health status does not improve with the number of years enrolled in the program. Second, we find a positive general …

This paper provides an analysis of the health insurance and health care consumption. A structural microeconomic model … of joint demand for health insurance and health care is developed and estimated using full maximum likelihood method … 100% to 10% increases the marginal demand for health care by about 90% and from 100% to 0% by about 150%. The correlation …

quartiles in rural China. We use data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey for the 2006 wave and we run an ordinary least …

In 1998 the Fifty-first World Health Assembly passed the "health-for-all policy for the twenty-first century". During … this assembly the Member States of the World Health Organization (WHO) reaffirmed their commitment to the principle that … "the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health is one of the fundamental rights of every human being". Even if …