Willingness to pay for social health insurance among informal sector workers in Wuhan, China: a contingent valuation study

Most of the about 140 million informal sector workers in urban China do not have health insurance. A 1998 central government policy leaves it to the discretion of municipal governments to offer informal sector workers in cities voluntary participation in a social health insurance for formal sector w...

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Main Authors: Bärnighausen, Till (Author) , Liu, Yuanli (Author) , Sauerborn, Rainer (Author)
Format: Article (Journal)
Language:English
Published: 20 July 2007
In: BMC health services research
Year: 2007, Volume: 7, Pages: 114
ISSN:1472-6963
DOI:10.1186/1472-6963-7-114
Online Access:Verlag, kostenfrei, Volltext: http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-7-114
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Author Notes:Till Bärnighausen, Yuanli Liu, Xinping Zhang, Rainer Sauerborn
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Summary:Most of the about 140 million informal sector workers in urban China do not have health insurance. A 1998 central government policy leaves it to the discretion of municipal governments to offer informal sector workers in cities voluntary participation in a social health insurance for formal sector workers, the so-called 'basic health insurance' (BHI).
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ISSN:1472-6963
DOI:10.1186/1472-6963-7-114