The Current Situations of Domestic and Oversea Health Econometrics Analysis and the Application Prospect of Health Area in China
10.7664/CHE20140402
- VernacularTitle:健康计量经济学国内外研究现状及其在我国卫生领域的应用展望
- Author:
Shuzhen CHU
;
Xiaoyu XI
;
Shuxiang LI
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
health economics;
public health;
health econometrics
- From:
Chinese Health Economics
2014;(4):8-10
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective: To plan the future for the establishment and development of health econometrics in China. Methods: To analyze the main current situation of the research on domestic and oversea health econometrics, and to look into the prospective future of its application field of public health in China. Results: Overseas studies on health economics have been relatively mature and extended to generate health econometrics as the independent discipline. However, the research on health economics in China is lagging, and on health econometrics even vacant. Conclusion: The results from foreign studies have revealed that this new discipline plays a unique and significant role in medical health research. Health econometrics occupies broad application prospect in the field of public health in China, which should be paid more attention and support.
