Two premises underlie state health care antitrust law reform measures. The first presumes that the federal antitrust laws prevent efficiency-enhancing collaborations and that, by displacing the federal regime, states can encourage health care firms to generate cost savings that they in turn will...

The progress of a nation depends on a large extent to the development of rural society. The development is consistent and effective only when there is a balanced growth regionally. In India still the development is lop-sided. In our country, there is mismatch between objectives and resources,...

China's old rural Cooperative Medical Scheme (CMS) all but collapsed following the economic reforms of the early 1980s. In an effort to reduce financial risk and make health care more affordable, the Government of China recently began piloting of a new voluntary health insurance scheme for rural...

This study contributes to the current understanding of what drives physicians to practice in rural areas by analyzing new, comprehensive survey data of practicing physicians in the United States. This research confirmed that rural origin is an important and reliable predictor for rural practice...

The paradoxes of rural-urban inequality in contemporary China / Martin King Whyte -- Small-town China : a historical perspective on rural-urban relations / Hanchao Lu -- Rural migrant workers and China's differential citizenship : a comparative institutional analysis / Wu Jieh-min -- How large...