Comparative Study on Health Insurance Literacy Abroad in Typical Regions

doi:10.19546/j.issn.1674-3830.2025.9.014

China Health Insurance ›› 2025, Vol. 0 ›› Issue (9) : 114-120. DOI: 10.19546/j.issn.1674-3830.2025.9.014

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To improve the willingness of the public to participate in medical insurance and help establish a sustainable mechanism for basic medical insurance enrollment, the study summarized the current state, theoretical concepts and measurement tools of health insurance literacy development in the US, the Netherlands and Switzerland, put forward the definition of China's medical insurance literacy based on national conditions and the experience of countries above, and suggested constructing China's medical insurance literacy measurement tool from the perspective of “knowledge-attitude-practice(KAP)”. The healthcare security authorities should take the lead in facilitating and advancing the monitoring of health insurance literacy via multiple channels, which is essential for the high-quality development of China's medical security endeavors.

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basic medical insurance / health insurance literacy / measure tools / KAP

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Comparative Study on Health Insurance Literacy Abroad in Typical Regions[J]. China Health Insurance. 2025, 0(9): 114-120 https://doi.org/10.19546/j.issn.1674-3830.2025.9.014

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