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SUMMARY:Health Economics @ Cambridge seminar: Social Health Insurance and 
 Treatment-Seeking Behaviour - Evidence from the Chinese New Rural Cooperat
 ive Medical Scheme - Dr Miaoqing Yang\, Cambridge Centre for Health Servic
 es Research\, RAND Europe
DTSTART:20160425T140000Z
DTEND:20160425T150000Z
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CONTACT:Ed Wilson
DESCRIPTION:In 2003\, China introduced a heavily subsidized voluntary heal
 th insurance programme\, the New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme (NRCMS).
  The program aimed to increase access to health care and reduce the financ
 ial burden of health expenditure faced by 800 million people living in rur
 al China. This paper evaluates the effectiveness of the NRCMS by assessing
  its impact on health care utilization and the use of different levels of 
 health facilities. As the program is a non-random policy initiative rolled
  out nationally\, various matching methods with difference-in-difference (
 DID) models are employed based on data from the China Health and Nutrition
  Survey (CHNS). The results show that the introduction of the NRCMS was no
 t clearly related to the overall use of medical care\, but it may have dir
 ected patients from town hospitals towards village clinics and county hosp
 itals. On one hand\, the NRCMS appears to partly rationalise the use of he
 alth services\, with some increase in the use of primary care. On the othe
 r hand\, the insurance may also alleviate financial barriers to accessing 
 higher levels of medical facilities and help patients to obtain better qua
 lity health care. 
LOCATION:Large  Seminar Room\, 1st Floor\, Institute of Public Health\, Un
 iversity Forvie Site\, Robinson Way\, Cambridge
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