Program in Health Care Financing: People

Theoretical Developments in Health Systems

Hsiao, WC. "Why is a systemic view of health financing necessary?" Health Affairs, 2007; 26: 950-961.

Hsiao, WC. and PS Heller. "What Macro Economists Should Know About Health Care Policy," IMF, 2007.

Hsiao, WC. and P. Shaw. "Social Health Insurance for Developing Nations," World Bank, 2007.

Hsiao, WC. "What is a Health System? Why Should We Care?" August, 2003

Roberts, Hsiao, Berman, Reich. "Getting Health Reform Right: A Guide to Improving Performance and Equity," Oxford University Press, 2003. Amazon.com | Oxford University Press

Hsiao, WC. "Unmet Needs of Two Billion." Commission on Macroeconomics and Health, WHO/The World Bank, September, 2001.

Hsiao, WC. "Abnormal Economics in the Health Sector." Health Policy, 1995;32:1-125-139.

Hsiao, WC. "Marketization - the illusory magic pill." Health Economics, 1994; 3:351–357.

Health System Evaluations

China

Yip, W and WC Hsiao. "The Chinese Health System at a Crossroads." Health Affairs, March/April 2008; 27(2): 460-468.

Liu, Y, P. Berman, W. Yip, et al. "Health Care in China: the Role of Non-Government Providers." Health Policy. 2006.

Blumenthal, D and WC Hsiao. "Privatization and its discontents - the evolving Chinese health care system."
The New England journal of medicine 353(11):1165-1170, 2005.

Yip WC, Hsiao WC. "Medical Savings Accounts: Lessons from China." Health Affairs, November/December 1997; 16:6:244-251.

Hsiao WC. "The Chinese Health Care System: Lessons for Other Nations." Social Science and Medicine, 1995;41(8):1047-1055.

Rural Mutual Health Care in China

The Harvard Team. "A Social Experiment in Rural China: Rural Mutual Health Care." Summary Report.

Yip, W., W. Hsiao. "Non evidence-based policy: How effective is China's New Cooperative Medical Scheme in reducing medical impoverishment?" Working Paper.

Yip, W., H. Wang, W. Hsiao. "The impact of Rural Mutual Health Care on access to care: Evaluation of a social experiment in rural China." Working Paper.

Wang, H., W. Yip, L. Zhang, W. Hsiao. "The impact of Rural Mutual Health Care on health status: Evaluation of a social experiment in rural China." Working Paper.

Wang, H., J. Sindelar, S. Busch. "The impact of tobacco expenditure on household consumption patterns in rural China." Social Science & Medicine 2006; 62: 1414-1426.

Wang, H., L. Zhang, WC Hsiao. "Ill health and its potential influence on household consumptions in rural China." Health Policy 2006; 78: 167-177.

Wang, H., W. Yip, et al. "Adverse Selection in a Voluntary-Based RMHC Insurance Scheme in Rural China." Social Science and Medicine, 2006, 63: 1236-1245.

Wang, H., W. Yip, et al. "Community-Based Health Insurance in Poor Rural China: the Distribution of Net Benefits." Health Policy and Planning, 2005, 20: 365-374.

Taiwan
Huang, N. W. Yip, et al. Trends in rural/urban differentials in incidence rates for ruptured appendicitis under the National Health Insurance in Taiwan. Public Health, 20067 in press.

Yip, W., YC Li, "Equality in Access to Care Under Taiwan’s National Health Insurance." Working paper.

Yip, W., M. Polisson, et al. "Treatments, Outcomes and Costs for AMI Patients in Taiwan." International Journal of Health Technology Management, forthcoming.

Chen, L. W. Yip, et al. "The Effects of Taiwan’s National Health Insurance on Access and Health Status of the Elderly." Health Economics, 2007, in press.

Huang, N., W. Yip, et al. "The Distribution of Net Benefits Under Taiwan’s National Health Insurance." Health Policy and Planning, 2007; 22: 49-59.

Hsu C, L. Chen, W. Yip, et al. "The dimensions of responsiveness of a health system: a Taiwanese perspective." BMC Public Health, 2006, 6:72.

Lu, JR and Hsiao, WC, "Does Universal Health Insurance Make Health Care Unaffordable?" Health Affairs, May/June 2003; 22:3:77-88.

Chou, YJ, Yip, W. et al. " The Impact of Separating Drug Prescribing and Dispensing on Provider Behavior." Health Policy and Pnanning 2003, 18(3): 316-329.

Hong Kong
Yip, W, and Hsiao, WC. "A Systematic Approach to Reforming Hong Kong's Health Care System" from, The Future of Hong Kong's Health Care System, ed. John Bacon-Shone and Gabriel Leung, 2006.

Yip, W. "The Hong Kong Health Care System—A 1960’s System in a 21st Century World." Harvard China Review, 2004, 5(1): 71-76.

Other countries
Hanson, K, W. Yip and WC Hsiao. "Patients' Choice of Public and Private Providers in Cyprus: Implications for Price and Quality Competitions." Health Economics, 2004; 13: 1167-1180

Hsiao, WC, "Behind the Ideology and Theory: What Is the Empirical Evidence for Medical Savings Accounts?" Journal of Health Policy, Politics and Law, July, 2001.

Yip, W. and P. Berman. "Targeting Public Subsidies Through School Health Insurance: the Case of Egypt." Health Economics, 2001; 10:207-220.

Hsiao WC. "Medical Savings Accounts: Lessons from Singapore" Health Affairs, Summer 1995;14:2.

Provider payment studies

Yip, W. and K. Eggleston. "Addressing Government and Market Failures Through Provider Payment: Hainan Province in the People's Republic of China." Social Science and Medicine, 2004; 58(2): 267-277.

Eggleston, K. and W. Yip. "Hospital Competition Under Regulated Prices: Application to Urban Health Sector Reform in China." International Health Finance and Economics, 2004; 4(4): 343-368

Chou, YJ, W Yip, et al. "The Impact of Separating Drug Prescribing and Dispensing on Provider Behavior: Taiwan's Experience." Health Policy and Planning, 2003; 18:316-329.

Yip, W. and K. Eggleston. "Provider Response to Prospective Hospital Payment in Hainan Province in the People's Republic of China". Health Economic, 2001; 10:325-339.

Yip, W. "Physicians Response to Medicare Fee Reductions: Changes in the Volume and Intensity of Supply of Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG) Procedures for the Medicare and Private Sectors." Journal of Health Economics, 1998;17(6): 675-699.

Wellbeing research

Lee, D., Yip, W., Chen, Y., Meng, Q., & Kleinman, A. " Ethno-Psychometric Evaluation of the General Health Questionnaire in Rural China." Psychological Medicine, 2005, 36(2), 249-255.

Yip, W., SV Subramanian, A. Mitchell, J. Wang, D. Lee, I. Kawachi. "Does Social Capital Enhance Health and Well-Being? Evidence from Rural China" Social Science and Medicine, 2007, 64:35-49.

Yip, W. and N. Adler. "Does Social Standing Affect Health and Happiness in Rural China?" Social Science and Medicine, Working Paper.