The economics of health care in Asia-Pacific countries / edited by Teh-Wei Hu and Chee-Ruey Hsieh.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hu, Teh-wei.

Hsieh, Chee-Ruey.

Series:

Academia studies in Asian economies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical care--Asia--Congresses.

Medical care.

Medical care--Pacific Area--Congresses.

Medical economics--Asia--Congresses.

Medical economics.

Medical economics--Pacific Area--Congresses.

Pacific Area.

Asia.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xvii, 273 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, [2002]

Contents:

Part I Health Care Reform

2 Health care reforms in Taiwan and the US: what we can learn from each other / Teh-Wei Hu, Yun-Yi Hung 15

3 Physician contracting with health plans: a survey of the literature / Martin Gaynor, Tami Mark 33

4 Health insurance reform in Korea: consolidation of funds / Bong Min-Yang 63

Part II Production of Health

5 Is rehabilitation following an acute hospital stay productive? Evidence from elderly patients in the United States / Frank A. Sloan, Donald H. Taylor, Gabriel A. Picone, R. Mark Wilson 85

6 Do investments in child education and nutrition improve adult health? Evidence from Indonesia / Paul Gertler, Jennifer Zeitlin 111

Part III Health Care Utilization

7 China's urban health insurance reform experiment in Zhenjiang: cost and utilization analyses / Gordon G. Liu, Renhua Cai, Schumarry Chao, Xianjun Xiong, Zhongyun Zhao, Eric Wu 143

8 Catastrophic illness policy and equity in delivering health care: empirical evidence from Taiwan / Jui-Fen Rachel Lu 159

9 Demand for supplemental health insurance and health care utilization in Taiwan / Shou-Hsia Cheng, Jung-Der Wang 177

Part IV Hospital Behavior

10 Cost shifting or sample selection: the case study of surgically treated workers' compensation back pain patients / Ya-Chen Tina Shih 193

11 Hospital services under a national health insurance system: transition from a free-for-service to a capitation system / Tetsuji Yamada, Tadashi Yamada, Seiritsu Ogura, Reiko Suzuki 213

Part V Health Care Financing

12 Financing health care for the elderly: will an aging population end 'health for all' in South Korea? / John W. Peabody, Paul J. Gertler, Bong-Min Yang, Duk Hyoung Lee 241

13 Monitoring and enforcement in federal alcohol and drug abuse block grants / Ching-to Albert Ma, Thomas G. McGuire, Yong Weng 257.

Notes:

"Papers presented at the Taipei International Conference on Health Economics held at the Institute [of Economics] on 25-26 March 1999"--Acknowledgements.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1840649291

OCLC:

48967827