Managing financial risk in healthcare: Medical cost anxiety, financial innovation, and income mobility in China
), Musa Abdu(2), Romanus Osabohien(3), Mihajlo Jakovljevic(4),
(1) College of Finance & Information, Ningbo University of Finance & Economics, Ningbo, 315175, Zhejiang, China
(2) Department of Economics, Gombe State University, Gombe, Nigeria; DEPECOS Institutions and Development Research Centre (DIaDeRC), Ota, Nigeria;
(3) DEPECOS Institutions and Development Research Centre (DIaDeRC), Ota, Nigeria; Department of Economics, Monarch University, Iyesi-Ota, Nigeria
(4) UNESCO-TWAS, Trieste, Italy; Shaanxi University of Technology, Hanzhong, China; Department of Global Health Economics and Policy, University of Kragujevac, Serbia
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