A comparative study of catastrophic health expenditure in Zhejiang and Qinghai province, China

• Main Authors: Xuemei Zhen (Author), Hao Zhang (Author), Xiaoqian Hu (Author), Shuyan Gu (Author), Yuanyuan Li (Author), Yuxuan Gu (Author), Minzhuo Huang (Author), Xueshan Sun (Author), Jingming Wei (Author), Hengjin Dong (Author)
• Formato: Libro
• Publicado: BMC, 2018-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background China has made great achievements in health insurance coverage and healthcare financing; however, the rate of catastrophic health expenditure (CHE) was 13.0% in China in 2008, which is higher than that in some other countries. There remain some differences in life-style, national...