Governing Health In Contemporary China

Author : Yanzhong Huang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136155499

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Governing Health in Contemporary China by Yanzhong Huang Pdf

The lack of significant improvement in people’s health status and other mounting health challenges in China raise a puzzling question about the country’s internal transition: why did the reform-induced dynamics produce an economic miracle, but fail to reproduce the success Mao had achieved in the health sector? This book examines the political and policy dynamics of health governance in post-Mao China. It explores the political-institutional roots of the public health and health care challenges and the evolution of the leaders’ policy response in contemporary China. It argues that reform-induced institutional dynamics, when interacting with Maoist health policy structure in an authoritarian setting, have not only contributed to the rising health challenges in contemporary China, but also shaped the patterns and outcomes of China’s health system transition. The study of China’s health governance will further our understanding of the evolving political system in China and the complexities of China’s rise. As the world economy and international security are increasingly vulnerable to major disease outbreaks in China, it also sheds critical light on China’s role in global health governance.

Author : MD. Nazrul Islam
Publisher : Springer
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 53,7 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 : Jiong Tu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 52,5 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 : Jie Yang
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-10
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781509502998

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Mental Health in China by Jie Yang Pdf

China's massive economic restructuring in recent decades has generated alarming incidences of mental disorder affecting over one hundred million people. This timely book provides an anthropological analysis of mental health in China through an exploration of psychology, psychiatry, psychotherapy and psychosocial practices, and the role of the State. The book offers a critical study of new characteristics and unique practices of Chinese psychology and cultural tradition, highlighting the embodied, holistic, heart-based approach to mental health. Drawing together voices from her own research and a broad range of theory, Jie Yang addresses the mental health of a diverse array of people, including members of China's elite, the middle class and underprivileged groups. She argues that the Chinese government aligns psychology with the imperatives and interests of state and market, mobilizing concepts of mental illness to resolve social, moral, economic, and political disorders while legitimating the continued rule of the party through psychological care and permissive empathy. This thoughtful analysis will appeal to those across the social sciences and humanities interested in well-being in China and the intersection of society, politics, culture, and mental health.

Author : Yi Hu
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783642399824

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Rural Health Care Delivery by Yi Hu Pdf

Diseases are everyday, ordinary occurrences intimately related to people’s daily lives. However, as the metaphor of the “Sick Man of East Asia” emerged against the backdrop of a weak modern China, health care and the curing of diseases were turned into grand state politics with far-reaching implications. This book, starting with the argument for diseases being metaphors, describes and interprets such incidents in China’s history as the Abolishment of Traditional Chinese Medicine, the Patriotic Hygiene Campaign and the Cooperative Medical Services. In an effort to reveal the internal logic of disease politics in the transformation of the state-people relationship, the book analyzes key aspects including the politicization and inclusion of diseases in state governance, the double disciplining of hygiene, legitimacy construction of the state, the remaking of the nationals, and the expansion of the “publicness” of the state. The book argues that disease politics in modern China has developed following the path from nationals to the people, and then to citizens, or from crisis politics and mobilization politics to life politics. In addition, a marked change has occurred in China’s state building: increasingly standard, rationalized and institutionalized means have been employed while the non-standard means, such as large-scale mobilization and ideological coercion, had been historically used in China.

Author : L. Chan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230116245

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China Engages Global Health Governance by L. Chan Pdf

This book explores public health in China in particular the management of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, with the goal of understanding China's compliance with and resistance to the norms and rules embedded in the global health regime.

Author : Jianxing Yu,Sujian Guo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 767 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811327995

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The Palgrave Handbook of Local Governance in Contemporary China by Jianxing Yu,Sujian Guo Pdf

This Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of local governance in China, and offers original analysis of key factors underpinning trends in this field drawing on the expertise of scholars both inside and outside China. It explores and analyzes the dynamic interaction and collaboration among multiple governmental and non-governmental actors and social sectors with an interest in the conduct of public affairs to address horizontal challenges faced by the local government, society, economy, and civil community and considers key issues such as governance in urban and rural areas, the impact of technology on governance and related issues of education, healthcare, environment and energy. As the result of a global and interdisciplinary collaboration of leading experts, this Handbook offers a cutting-edge insight into the characteristics, challenges and trends of local governance and emphasizes the promotion of good governance and democratic development in China.

Author : Simon Howe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : China
ISBN : OCLC:1430594460

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Health-seeking in contemporary China by Simon Howe Pdf

Author : Weiping Wu,Mark Frazier
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 1639 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781526455598

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The SAGE Handbook of Contemporary China by Weiping Wu,Mark Frazier Pdf

Contemporary China is dynamic and complex. Recent dramatic changes in the Chinese economy, society, and environment pose numerous challenges for scholars of China. This Handbook will define contemporary China Studies for the social sciences: investigating how we can best study China; exploring the transformations of contemporary China that inform how we study China; presenting the breadth and depth of the China Studies field; and identify future directions for China Studies. In two volumes, the Handbook situates China Studies in history and context. Each chapter in Part One provides an overview and historiography of how scholars have conceptualized the Chinese state, nation, economy and environment, and analyzes trends in terms of different research approaches, types of sources, and trends in the study of these broad concepts. The next five parts cover substantive themes in China Studies, including economic transformations; politics and government; China as a global actor; urbanization and urban development; and Chinese society. In conclusion, the Handbook draws together critical discussions of emerging issues of transdisciplinary approaches to China Studies, the future of Chinese historical Studies, and the future of China in comparative contexts.

Author : Xian Huang
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780190073640

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Social Protection Under Authoritarianism by Xian Huang Pdf

Introduction -- Theory of stratified expansion of social welfare -- Overview of China's social health insurance -- The center's distributive strategy and fund allocation -- Local motivation and distributive choices -- Understanding subnational variation in Chinese social health insurance -- Who gets what, when and how from Chinese social health insurance expansion? -- Conclusion.

Author : Pierre-Yves Donzé,Paloma Fernández Pérez
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000545012

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The Business of Health by Pierre-Yves Donzé,Paloma Fernández Pérez Pdf

This book offers a discussion about the dramatic development of healthcare business around the world during the twentieth century. Through a broad range of cases in Asia, Europe and the US, it shows how health was transformed into a fast-growing and diversified industry. Health and medicine have developed as one of the fastest growing sectors of the economy around the world during the twentieth century. However, very little is known about the conditions of their transformation in a big, globalized business. This book discusses the development of health industries, tackling the various activities in manufacturing (drugs, biotechnology, medical devices, etc.), infrastructure (hospital design and construction) and services (nursing care, insurances, hospital management, etc.) in relation to healthcare. The business history of health carried out in this book offers a systemic perspective that includes the producers (companies), practitioners (medical doctors) and users (patients and hospitals) of medical technology, as well as the providers of capital and the bodies responsible for regulating the health system (government). The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal Business History.

Author : Tse-Kang Leng,Yun-han Chu
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0739126881

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Dynamics of Local Governance in China During the Reform Era by Tse-Kang Leng,Yun-han Chu Pdf

Dynamics of Local Governance in China during the Reform takes a close look at China's current transformation and its broader implications. Through their thought-provoking essays, the contributors to this volume dissect China's transformation by examining various topics in the field of contemporary China studies, such as rural industrialization, development of civic society, socio-economic transformation and local self-governance.

Author : Elaine Jeffreys
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135256357

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China's Governmentalities by Elaine Jeffreys Pdf

Since the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) embarked on a programme of ‘reform and openness’ in the late 1970s, Chinese society has undergone a series of dramatic transformations in almost all realms of social, cultural, economic and political life and the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has emerged as a global power. China’s post-1978 transition from ‘socialist plan’ to ‘market socialism’ has also been accompanied by significant shifts in how the practice and objects of government are understood and acted upon. China’s Governmentalities outlines the nature of these shifts, and contributes to emerging studies of governmentality in non-western and non-liberal settings, by showing how neoliberal discourses on governance, development, education, the environment, community, religion, and sexual health, have been raised in other contexts. In doing so, it opens discussions of governmentality to ‘other worlds’ and the glocal politics of the present. The book will appeal to scholars from a wide range of disciplines interested in the work of Michel Foucault, neo-liberal strategies of governance, and governmental rationalities in contemporary China.

Author : Vivienne Shue,Patricia M. Thornton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107193529

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To Govern China by Vivienne Shue,Patricia M. Thornton Pdf

This book presents a uniquely dynamic and fluid model of political evolution in the world's largest and most powerful authoritarian regime.

Author : Hong Liu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000508000

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The Political Economy of Transnational Governance by Hong Liu Pdf

The past two decades have witnessed far-reaching socioeconomic and political changes in Asia, such as the growing intraregional flows of capital, goods, people, and knowledge, the rise of China as the world’s second largest economy, and its increasing influence in Southeast Asia, intensified US–China confrontations in the global arena, and the onslaught of the global Covid-19 pandemic. Focusing on multidimensional interactions (including geopolitical and economic relationships, diaspora engagement, and knowledge exchange) between China and Southeast Asia, this book argues that an interwoven perspective of the political economy, transnational governance, and regional networks serves as an effective analytical framework for deciphering these transformations as well as their global and theoretical implications. Drawing upon a wide range of primary data and engaging with the latest interdisciplinary scholarship on contemporary Asia, this book’s thought-provoking and nuanced analyses will appeal to scholars and students in Chinese and Southeast Asian studies, international political economy, international relationships, ethnic and migration studies, and public governance.