Edited by Teh-Wei Hu, Professor of Health Economics, Division of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, US and Chee-Ruey Hsieh, Research Fellow, Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

• Full Contents: 1. Editors’ Introduction Part I: Health Care Reform 2. Health care Reforms in Taiwan and the US: What we Can Learn from Each Other 3. Physician Contracting with Health Plans: A Survey of the Literature 4. Health Insurance Reform in Korea: Consolidation of Funds Part II: Production of Health 5. Is Rehabilitation Following an Acute Hospital Stay Productive? Evidence from Elderly Patients in the United States 6. Do Investments in Child Education and Nutrition Improve Adult Health? Evidence from Indonesia Part III: Health Care Utilization 7. China’s Urban Health Insurance Reform Experiment in Zhenjiang: Cost and Utilization Analyses 8. Catastrophic Illness Policy and Equity in Delivering Health Care: Empirical Evidence from Taiwan 9. Demand for Supplemental Health Insurance and Health Care Utilization in Taiwan Part IV: Hospital Behavior 10. Cost Shifting or Sample Selection: The Case Study of Surgically Treated Workers’ Compensation Back Pain Patients 11. Hospital Services under a National Health Insurance System: Transition from a Free-for-Service to a Capitation System Part V: Health Care Financing 12. Financing Health Care for the Elderly: Will an Aging Population End ‘Health for All’ in South Korea? 13. Monitoring and Enforcement in Federal Alcohol and Drug Abuse Block Grants Index

Edited by Teh-Wei Hu, Professor of Health Economics, Division of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, US and Chee-Ruey Hsieh, Research Fellow, Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

• Full Contents: 1. Editors’ Introduction Part I: Health Care Reform 2. Health care Reforms in Taiwan and the US: What we Can Learn from Each Other 3. Physician Contracting with Health Plans: A Survey of the Literature 4. Health Insurance Reform in Korea: Consolidation of Funds Part II: Production of Health 5. Is Rehabilitation Following an Acute Hospital Stay Productive? Evidence from Elderly Patients in the United States 6. Do Investments in Child Education and Nutrition Improve Adult Health? Evidence from Indonesia Part III: Health Care Utilization 7. China’s Urban Health Insurance Reform Experiment in Zhenjiang: Cost and Utilization Analyses 8. Catastrophic Illness Policy and Equity in Delivering Health Care: Empirical Evidence from Taiwan 9. Demand for Supplemental Health Insurance and Health Care Utilization in Taiwan Part IV: Hospital Behavior 10. Cost Shifting or Sample Selection: The Case Study of Surgically Treated Workers’ Compensation Back Pain Patients 11. Hospital Services under a National Health Insurance System: Transition from a Free-for-Service to a Capitation System Part V: Health Care Financing 12. Financing Health Care for the Elderly: Will an Aging Population End ‘Health for All’ in South Korea? 13. Monitoring and Enforcement in Federal Alcohol and Drug Abuse Block Grants Index

Edited by Teh-Wei Hu, Professor of Health Economics, Division of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, US and Chee-Ruey Hsieh, Research Fellow, Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

• Full Contents: 1. Editors’ Introduction Part I: Health Care Reform 2. Health care Reforms in Taiwan and the US: What we Can Learn from Each Other 3. Physician Contracting with Health Plans: A Survey of the Literature 4. Health Insurance Reform in Korea: Consolidation of Funds Part II: Production of Health 5. Is Rehabilitation Following an Acute Hospital Stay Productive? Evidence from Elderly Patients in the United States 6. Do Investments in Child Education and Nutrition Improve Adult Health? Evidence from Indonesia Part III: Health Care Utilization 7. China’s Urban Health Insurance Reform Experiment in Zhenjiang: Cost and Utilization Analyses 8. Catastrophic Illness Policy and Equity in Delivering Health Care: Empirical Evidence from Taiwan 9. Demand for Supplemental Health Insurance and Health Care Utilization in Taiwan Part IV: Hospital Behavior 10. Cost Shifting or Sample Selection: The Case Study of Surgically Treated Workers’ Compensation Back Pain Patients 11. Hospital Services under a National Health Insurance System: Transition from a Free-for-Service to a Capitation System Part V: Health Care Financing 12. Financing Health Care for the Elderly: Will an Aging Population End ‘Health for All’ in South Korea? 13. Monitoring and Enforcement in Federal Alcohol and Drug Abuse Block Grants Index