Health Insurance Reforms in Asia

by Sabrina Ching Yuen Luk

Book Overview

This book empirically examines health care financing reforms and popular responses in three major cities in East Asia: Shanghai, Singapore, and Hong Kong. It adopts a new revised version of the theory of historical institutionalism to compare and explain the divergent reform paths in these three places over the past three decades. It also examines forces that propel institutional change.

The book provides three detailed case studies on the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415870704
• ISBN13: 9780415870702
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"