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Table 1.

Dimensions of policy strategies of strengthening governance in health financing in China

Dimensions	Policy strategies	Variables
1. Fiscal resource input	Building new public insurance programs. Expanding the benefit packages of public insurance programs. Expanding the scope of the medicine catalogs of public insurance programs	Reference
2. Marketization promotion	Promoting private health insurance	Marketization orientation
3. Regulation enforcement	Reforming the payment methods of public insurance programs. Containing the expenditures of public insurance funds. Reinforcing the management of designated health facilities	Regulation orientation

Dimensions	Policy strategies	Variables
1. Fiscal resource input	Building new public insurance programs. Expanding the benefit packages of public insurance programs. Expanding the scope of the medicine catalogs of public insurance programs	Reference
2. Marketization promotion	Promoting private health insurance	Marketization orientation
3. Regulation enforcement	Reforming the payment methods of public insurance programs. Containing the expenditures of public insurance funds. Reinforcing the management of designated health facilities	Regulation orientation

Notes: We categorized policy strategies related to strengthening health financing governance into three dimensions: fiscal resource input, marketization promotion and regulation enforcement. To depict the transition of the national policy agenda from emphasizing the input of fiscal resources to highlighting the promotion of marketization and the enforcement of regulations, we took the dimension of fiscal resource input as the reference dimension and compared it to the other dimensions (marketization promotion and regulation enforcement), thus constructing two variables related to policy orientations: a marketization orientation and a regulation orientation.

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