Policy Levers for First-Contact Healthcare Provider Choice: A Discrete Choice Experiment in Shanghai’s Hierarchical Medical System
Price gradients are necessary but insufficient; coupling PHC-tilted financing with visible access/quality signals delivers the largest shift of mild first-contact care away from tertiary hospitals.
Authors
- Yi Gong (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2936-4476)
Institutions
- Ritsumeikan University (JP)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Applied Health Economics and Health Policy
- Published
- 2026-03-04
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s40258-026-01033-7
- Primary Topic
- Healthcare Systems and Reforms
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00