the demand for health-care services. Using data from the 1991-2006 waves of the China Health and Nutrition Survey, we find …-serious medical situations are found to be more sensitive to prices. We observe little impact on patient health, as measured by self …-reported poor health status …

the demand for health-care services. Using data from the 1991-2006 waves of the China Health and Nutrition Survey, we find …-serious medical situations are found to be more sensitive to prices. We observe little impact on patient health, as measured by self …-reported poor health status …

Background China started a pilot public hospital reform in 2012 to improve governance and efficiency in healthcare … services delivery among county-level hospitals. This study aims to investigate the impact of the pilot reform on hospital …-stage approach is used. First, this study uses the output-oriented data envelopment analysis (DEA) to estimate hospital efficiency …

impact of Public Hospital Reform (PHR) on mitigating these mismatches. Methods A Difference-in-Differences (DD) approach is …