The effect of herd formation among healthcare investors on health sector growth in China

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The effect of herd formation among healthcare investors on health sector growth in China

Creator

Zhou Lulin, Henry Asante Antwi, Wenxin Wang, Ethel Yiranbon, Emmanuel Opoku Marfo, Patrick Acheampong

Description

Background
China has become the world‘s second largest healthcare market based on a recent report by the World Health Organization. Eventhough China achieved universal health insurance coverage in 2011, representing the largest expansion of insurance coverage in human history achieved; health inequality remains endemic in China. Lessons from the effect of market crisis on health equity in Europe and other places has reignited interest in exploring the potential healthcare market aberrations that can trigger distributive injustice in healthcare resource allocation among China’s provinces. Recently, many healthcare investors in China have become more concerned about capital preservation, and are responding by abandoning long term investments strategies in healthcare. This investment withdrawal en mass is perceived to be influenced by herding tendencies and can trigger or …

Publisher

BioMed Central

Date

2016

Source

https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=KuGpI3oAAAAJ&citation_for_view=KuGpI3oAAAAJ:9yKSN-GCB0IC

Language

English