Title :
Economic analysis on the excessive growth of medical costs in China
Author_Institution :
Grad. Sch., Jiangxi Univ. of Finance & Economic, Nanchang, China
Abstract :
Currently, China´s rapid growth of medical costs has become a hot issue that public concern. The exaggerated medical costs have become the main reason that constrains residents to make use of out-patient services and hospitalization services. According to this, the author makes an analysis on reasons affecting the excessive growth of China´s medical costs from the perspective of both the supply and demand side, and puts forward to rational proposals on controlling the excessive growth of China´s medical expenses according to this analysis.
Keywords :
costing; health care; patient care; supply and demand; China; economic analysis; hospitalization services; medical costs; out-patient services; supply and demand; Cities and towns; Costs; Finance; Forward contracts; Government; Medical control systems; Pressure control; Proposals; Statistical analysis; Supply and demand; economic analysis; excessive growth; medical costs;
Conference_Titel :
Computer and Automation Engineering (ICCAE), 2010 The 2nd International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Singapore
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5585-0
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5586-7
DOI :
10.1109/ICCAE.2010.5451602