Background An urban poor is a vulnerable group that needs government financing support
to access health services. Once they are sick, they will fall deeper into poverty. The study …

Detecting and preventing unusual claims behavior in medical insurance can reduce the
drawdown of a group medical insurance pool. Taking the case of the urban employee basic …

Background: This study took Beijing as an example to estimate the incidence and regional
inequalities of catastrophic health expenditures (CHE) in a megacity of China. Methods: This …

Background The gradual movement towards universal health coverage (UHC) is an
important issue in many countries. The aim of this study is to identify the role of …

This study contributes to the scarce literature in developing countries by causally analyzing
the long-term impact of secondary general versus vocational education on labor market …

In recent years, the mass media (such as TV shows and movies) plays an important role in
communication with the general public. In this paper, we investigate the impact of a recent …

This paper investigates how housing wealth affects urban elderly's commercial health
insurance participation by using the discontinuity along housing size formed by China's …

In this paper, we investigate private health insurance (PHI) spending in Organization for
Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) economies for the period 2000–2020 …

We investigate how people insure themselves against an upsurge of risk and uncertainty
during a pandemic. Using high-frequency, city-level insurance purchases data from the …

Objectives We aim to analyse the effects of government subsidies on residents' health and
healthcare expenditure from the perspectives of supply and demand. Data and methods …