Impact of an innovative tuberculosis financing and payment model on health service utilization by tuberculosis patients in China: do the poor fare better than the rich?

• Auteurs principaux: Di Dong (Auteur), Wei-Xi Jiang (Auteur), Qian Long (Auteur), Fei Huang (Auteur), Hui Zhang (Auteur), Jia-Ying Chen (Auteur), Li Xiang (Auteur), Qiang Li (Auteur), Sheng-Lan Tang (Auteur), Henry Lucas (Auteur)
• Format: Livre
• Publié: BMC, 2019-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Sujets: article
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Abstract Background Tuberculosis (TB) prevalence is closely associated with poverty in China, and poor patients face more barriers to treatment. Using an insurance-based approach, the China-Gates TB program Phase II was implemented between 2012 and 2014 in three cities in China to improve access to...