TY - JOUR T1 - Reports from Taiwan JF - Injury Prevention JO - Inj Prev SP - 76 LP - 77 DO - 10.1136/ip.5.1.76-b VL - 5 IS - 1 AU - Tsung-Hsueh Lu Y1 - 1999/03/01 UR - http://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/5/1/76.3.abstract N2 - Taiwan is a small island of 36 000 km2 with a total population of 21 million. On 1 March 1995, the Taiwan government inaugurated a universal compulsory national health insurance (NHI) scheme. According to the annual report of the Bureau of NHI, the NHI paid 80 billion US dollars in 1997; 68% of these payments were for ambulatory care and 32% for inpatient care. There were 376 000 ambulatory care claims due to injuries and the payments for these claims totalled … ER -