Social Protection Brief: Strengthening Provider Payment Methods for Rural Health Insurance in the People’s Republic of China
Asian Development Bank | July 2015
Abstract
ADB Briefs are based on papers or notes prepared by ADB staff and their resource persons. The series is designed to provide concise, nontechnical accounts of policy issues of topical interest, with a view to facilitating informed debate. The Department of External Relations administers the series. In this issue, ADB Briefs talks about New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme aims to address the high out-of-pocket expenditures for health care in rural areas. With its rapid progress during implementation in 2008, the NRCMS was able to cover 100% of the
PRC’s counties and enrolled a total of 833 million people (94% of the target population) in 2009. This achievement made it the largest insurance scheme in the world.
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Asian Development Bank. 2015. Social Protection Brief: Strengthening Provider Payment Methods for Rural Health Insurance in the People’s Republic of China. © Asian Development Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/5086. License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.PDF ISBN
978-92-9257-041-5
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978-92-9257-040-8
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2071-7202 (Print); 2218-2675 (e-ISSN)
Keywords
Quality of Health Care
Public Health
Partnerships in Health Reform
Health Systems
Health Care Services
Health Standards
Health Service Management
Delivery of health care
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