Commercialisation Of Medical Care In China

Author : Rama V. Baru,Madhurima Nundy
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000697896

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Commercialisation of Medical Care in China by Rama V. Baru,Madhurima Nundy Pdf

This book explores the changing landscapes of the commercialisation of medical care in China. It is the first work of its kind, and discusses how the rise of market socialism, coupled with decollectivisation of agriculture and autonomisation of hospitals in rural and urban China, have fragmented the health service system. The book examines public hospital reforms; the rise of the medical–industrial complex; the emerging public–private partnerships in the health sector; the challenges of financing; and the growing inequalities in access to health services, to present a comprehensive view of the Chinese health care system over the last four decades. This topical book will be useful to scholars and researchers of Chinese studies, Chinese economy, public health, health management, social health and medicine, medical sociology, sociology, political economy, public policy and public administration as well as policymakers and practitioners.

Author : China Development Research Foundation
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000051865

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China's Commercial Health Insurance by China Development Research Foundation Pdf

This book examines the financing of China’s health system, argues that present arrangements are not adequate and proposes an increased role for commercial health insurance as a way of overcoming the difficulties. Highlighting that China’s present social medical insurance system can only cover basic medical services, with the results that many Chinese people with higher income are going abroad for high-quality medical services and that doctors are not bringing in the salaries and obtaining the social status they expect, the book suggests that commercial health insurance offers a possible solution, in that it can help meet the demand of higher-income groups for better healthcare services while at the same time increasing the income of more competent medical professionals. The book goes on to consider the current state of China’s commercial insurance industry, outlining the various challenges that the industry needs to overcome if it is to fulfil an increased role, challenges such as greater specialization, increased capacity, structural reform, improved regulation and closer integration with China’s medical reform programme.

Author : M. Mackintosh,M. Koivusalo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2005-09-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230523616

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Commercialization of Health Care by M. Mackintosh,M. Koivusalo Pdf

Based on original research and analysis by a group of health policy experts and economists from across the world, this book analyzes the causes and consequences of the expanding global and local commercialization of health care. It argues for the necessity and possibility of effective policy responses to develop good quality, universally inclusive health systems worldwide. The book aims to contribute to a shift in the international 'common sense' in health policy towards a more humane, inclusive, egalitarian, and ethical framework for policy formulation.

Author : Jean-Pierre Unger,Pierre De Paepe,Kasturi Sen,Werner Soors
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-23
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781139489935

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International Health and Aid Policies by Jean-Pierre Unger,Pierre De Paepe,Kasturi Sen,Werner Soors Pdf

International health and aid policies of the past two decades have had a major impact on the delivery of care in low and middle-income countries. This book argues that these policies have often failed to achieve their main aims, and have in fact contributed to restricted access to family medicine and hospital care. Presenting detailed evidence, and illustrated by case studies, this book describes how international health policies to date have largely resulted in expensive health care for the rich, and disjointed and ineffective services for the poor. As a result, large segments of the population world-wide continue to suffer from unnecessary casualties, pain and impoverishment. International Health and Aid Policies arms health professionals, researchers and policy makers with strategies that will enable them to bridge the gaps between public health, medicine and health policy in order to support robust, comprehensive and accessible health care systems in any political environment.

Author : Jiong Tu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811307881

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Health Care Transformation in Contemporary China by Jiong Tu Pdf

This multifaceted book examines the free market reform of the Chinese healthcare system in the 1980s and the more collectivist or socialist counter-reforms that have been implemented since 2009 to remedy some of the problems introduced by marketization. The book is based on an ethnographical study in a Chinese county from 2011 to 2012, which investigated local people’s experience of healthcare reforms and the various ways in which they have adapted their own behavior to the constraints and opportunities introduced by these reforms. It provides a vivid depiction of the morality and emotionality of people’s experiences of the Chinese healthcare system and the myriad frustrations and sometimes desperation it induces not only among patients with significant health problems and their families, but also healthcare practitioners caught between their desire to do right by their patients and the penalties they personally incur if they do not adhere to institutionalized cost-saving measures. The people’s experiences within China’s health sector presented reflect many similar experiences in the wider Chinese society. The book is thus a valuable resource for researchers and graduate students interested in China’s healthcare reforms and scholars concerned with issues of contemporary Chinese society.

Author : Jasmine Gideon,Elaine Unterhalter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000297133

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Critical Reflections on Public Private Partnerships by Jasmine Gideon,Elaine Unterhalter Pdf

This book argues that despite the hype within many policy circles, there is actually very little evidence to support the presumed benefits of Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) in reducing poverty and addressing inequalities in the provision of and access to public services. Taking a cross-sectoral comparative approach, this book investigates how PPPs have played out in practice, and what the implications have been for inequalities. Drawing on a range of empirical case studies in education, healthcare, housing and water, the book picks apart the roles of PPPs as financing mechanisms in several international and national contexts and considers the similarities and differences between sectors. The global COVID-19 pandemic has raised significant questions about the future of social provision and through its analysis of the emergence and expansion of the role of PPPs, the book also makes a vital contribution to current discussion over this rapidly changing landscape. Overall, this wide-ranging guide to understanding and evaluating the role of PPPs in the Global South will be useful to researchers within development, international relations, economics, and related fields, as well as to policy makers and practitioners working in development-related policy.

Author : N.V. Varghese,Jinusha Panigrahi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000603828

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India Higher Education Report 2021 by N.V. Varghese,Jinusha Panigrahi Pdf

This volume provides an in-depth analysis of the critical dimensions of higher education in India. It focuses on the growth and expansion of private higher education and public policy. The volume discusses issues related to the growth of for-profit and not-for-profit private higher education institutions and their implications at the policy level. It outlines the role of such institutions towards the internationalization and global ranking of the Indian higher education system. The book discusses the trends in internationalisation adopted by private higher education institutions and explains the resulting impact on aspects such as the diversity of programs, skill formation, employability, pedagogic practices, standards, curriculum development, and research and development, as well as the wider externalities in terms of promoting India’s soft power and international relations with other countries. While outlining the challenges of Open Distance Learning (ODL) and online education in India, the book also discusses the use of ICT, OER, and MOOCS among others to address the challenges of the ODL system. This volume will be of interest to teachers, students, and researchers of education, public policy, political science, international relations, law, sociology, economics, and political economy. It will also be useful for academicians, policymakers, and anyone interested in the internationalization of Indian Higher Education.

Author : Susan Greenhalgh,Edwin A. Winckler
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0804748802

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Governing China's Population by Susan Greenhalgh,Edwin A. Winckler Pdf

'Governing China's Population' tells the story of political and cultural shifts, from the perspectives of both regime and society.

Author : Peggy Watson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781136259432

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Health Care Reform and Globalisation by Peggy Watson Pdf

In the post-Cold War, post financial crisis era, health care is an issue of critical political, personal and economic concern. In the US, plans to address a troubled health care model were met by vocal opposition. In the UK and post-communist Europe, attempts to introduce aspects of that model have resulted in controversy and violent protests, while China and Russia have recently backpedalled on marketising reforms. This innovative book provides a timely analysis addressing the many dimensions of radical health care change. Bringing together three major geopolitical regions with strikingly different recent histories, this international cast of contributors, examines reform in US, China and Europe within a single study frame. They look at the processes that have been involved when countries with such diverse starting points try to move towards a globally shared health care framework. An underlying theme running through the chapters is access to care, and how it is shaped by moral economies, by what can be said and known, and by political and economic power. Health Care Reform and Globalisation confronts the interpretations and experiences of patients, professionals, and politicians of health care transformation in practice. It will be of interest to scholars from a range of diverse disciplinary backgrounds, including public health, anthropology, area studies, sociology, politics, social policy, geography and economics.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780415691086

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Health Care Reform and Globalisation by Anonim Pdf

This innovative book provides a timely analysis addressing radical health care change in the context of post-Cold War, post financial crisis era, globalisation.

Author : World Health Organization
Publisher : World Health Organization
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789241564045

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Medical Devices by World Health Organization Pdf

Background papers 1 to 9 published as technical documents. Available in separate records from WHO/HSS/EHT/DIM/10.1 to WHO/HSS/EHT/DIM/10.9

Author : MD. Nazrul Islam
Publisher : Springer
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-28
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783662477533

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Public Health Challenges in Contemporary China by MD. Nazrul Islam Pdf

This book addresses contemporary public health challenges in China from an interdisciplinary perspective. These challenges include health service system, population ageing, food safety, substance abuse and its prevention and treatment, Buddhist delivery of elderly care, the development of professional healthcare social work, and the integration of Chinese Medicine in public health. The book brings together top-notch scholars, academics and professionals in each of these research areas to explore and reveal the complex and challenging task of addressing health-related issues in China.

Author : Susan F. Murray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781009208208

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The Problem of Private Health Insurance by Susan F. Murray Pdf

Financial markets, actors, institutions and technologies are increasingly determining which kinds of services and 'welfare' are available, how these are narrated, and what comes to represent the 'common sense' in the policy world and in everyday life. This Element problematises the rationale and operation of one such financial technology, private health insurance, and the industry it inhabits. It offers a cross-disciplinary overview of the various drivers of these markets in middle-income countries and their appeal for development institutions and for governments. Using a range of illustrative case examples and drawing on critical scholarship it considers how new markets are pursued and how states are entangled with market development. It reflects on how the private health insurance sector in turn is shaping and segmenting health systems, and also our ideas about rights, fairness and responsibility.

Author : Zedong Mao
Publisher : China Books
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : China
ISBN : 083512388X

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Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung by Zedong Mao Pdf

Author : Daniela Stockmann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107018440

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Media Commercialization and Authoritarian Rule in China by Daniela Stockmann Pdf

Stockmann argues that the consequences of introducing market forces to the media depend on the institutional design of the state.