Health Care Transition In Urban China

Author : Shenglan Tang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781351931335

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The on-going transition to a market economy in China is having a profound effect on health services. As a result, the government has made health one of the key policy areas, and there is now a general recognition of the need to reform urban health services. Multidisciplinary in scope, this exceptional volume draws on a prestigious report to explore how changes in health finance have affected the performance of urban health services in terms of equity and efficiency. Based on empirical evidence from the cities of Nantong, Jiangsu Province and Zibo, Shandong Province (selected for their innovative approach to health system development), the book offers an in-depth understanding of the relationship between transition, health reform and health system performance in urban settings. It features collaboration between European and Chinese academics and Chinese practitioners and officials, providing valuable background and contextual information on a complex system of healthcare, and presenting an analysis of policy impact and likely future direction.

Author : Gerald Bloom,Tang Shenglan,Shenglan Tang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0754639665

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Health Care Transition in Urban China by Gerald Bloom,Tang Shenglan,Shenglan Tang Pdf

The on-going transition to a market economy in China is having a profound effect on health services. Based on empirical evidence, this exceptional multidisciplinary volume offers an in-depth understanding of the relationship between transition, health re

Author : Lijie Fang
Publisher : Springer
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811307584

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The Chinese Health System in Transition by Lijie Fang Pdf

This book provides an overview of the ongoing transition in China’s health system, especially focusing on the new healthcare reform initiated in 2009. First, it reviews the changes in China’s healthcare system from the 1950s to 2008, establishing the situation when the reform was introduced. The book subsequently analyzes the social and economic context in which the health system is embedded. Since the primary focus is on the new healthcare reform, the book introduces the blueprint and the year-for-year development of the new healthcare reform, as well as the specific reforms in health financing, public hospitals, and primary care. Given its central importance in the health system, the book also described major trends in long-term care in the past several years. In addition, it examines the health policy-making process with a case study of the New Cooperative Medical Scheme of China. Lastly, the book assesses the performance of China’s health system and predicts future developmental trends.

Author : Xinxin Ma
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811677908

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Public Medical Insurance Reforms in China by Xinxin Ma Pdf

This book investigates public medical insurance reform in China and studies its effects from both institutional and empirical study perspectives. It provides the reader with academic evidence for understanding the transformation of public medical insurance and its effect on the utilization of healthcare services, expenditure for medical care, individuals’ financial portfolio allocation, and well-being. The main content of the book comprises two parts. First, institutional transformations of public medical insurance are considered: medical insurance reform in rural and urban China, and problems of medical insurance reform in the country. Second, it looks at the impact of public medical insurance reforms in China: evidence-based on empirical studies, including determinants of participation in medical insurance, the New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme and its effects on the utilization of healthcare services, medical insurance and its effects on out-of-pocket expenditure, risky financial market participation, and well-being in China. This study provides academic evidence about these issues based on economic theories and econometric methods using many kinds of nationwide Chinese representative survey data. The book is highly recommended to readers who are interested in up-to-date and in-depth empirical studies on the mechanisms of participation in medical insurance and the impact of public medical insurance reforms on individuals and household behaviors in China. This volume will be of interest to those who are interested in the Chinese economy, social security policymakers, and scholars with an econometric analysis background.

Author : Rama V. Baru,Madhurima Nundy
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 47,9 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 : Hui Yang
Publisher : Open Dissertation Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1360990100

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SHIFTING HEALTH CARE REGIMES I by Hui Yang Pdf

This dissertation, "Shifting Health Care Regimes in Urban China and the Impact on the Urban Poor" by Hui, Yang, 杨慧, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. DOI: 10.5353/th_b4514200 Subjects: Medical care - China Health care reform - China Urban health - China Health services accessibility - China Urban poor - China

Author : Yanzhong Huang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 50,8 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 : Chack-kie Wong,Vai Io Lo,Kwong-leung Tang
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2005-11-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780739152980

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China's Urban Health Care Reform by Chack-kie Wong,Vai Io Lo,Kwong-leung Tang Pdf

One way to describe the importance of social policy is to say it's about 'what is and what might be.' This ethos is the driving force behind Chack-Kie Wong, Vai Io Lo, and Kwong-leung Tang's China's Urban Health Care Reform. Based on a study of a mid-level city in China, these three scholars provide analysis and offer theory-based recommendations on health care development. Using a comparative policy framework, supported by a legal expert's knowledge of regulatory specifications, China's Urban Health Care Reform argues that a strategy with priority in economic growth, as in the case of China, does not bring forth cost efficiency and equity in health care for the whole nation. Ultimately, Wong, Lo, and Tang strive to offer direction for health care reform that will lead to better health care in China's cities. As a result, this is a work of great significance to anyone involved in public health, social work, public policy, medicine, or law.

Author : World Bank
Publisher : Washington, D.C. : World Bank
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Medical
ISBN : STANFORD:36105000316229

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China by World Bank Pdf

Author : John Logan
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780470712627

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Urban China in Transition by John Logan Pdf

Using an innovative approach, this book interprets the unprecedented transformation of contemporary China’s major cities. It deals with a diversity of trends and analyzes their sources. Offers a multi-dimensional analysis of urban life in China Highlights a diversity of trends in the areas of migration, criminal victimization, gated communities, and the status of women, suburbanization, and neighbourhood associations Each chapter includes input from both an expert on urban life in China and an 'outside' expert from the fields of sociology, geography, economics, planning, political science, history, demography, architecture, or anthropology An alternative theoretical perspective comparing the Chinese experience with other urban settings in the United States, Poland, Russia, Vietnam, East and South East Asia, and South America

Author : 杨慧
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Medical care
ISBN : 7566004131

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中国医疗卫生体制转型及其对城市贫困人口的影响 by 杨慧 Pdf

Author : Bridie Andrews,Mary Brown Bullock
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-14
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780253014948

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Medical Transitions in Twentieth-Century China by Bridie Andrews,Mary Brown Bullock Pdf

“Rich insights into how one country has dealt with perhaps the most central issue for any human society: the health and wellbeing of its citizens.” —The Lancet This volume examines important aspects of China’s century-long search to provide appropriate and effective health care for its people. Four subjects—disease and healing, encounters and accommodations, institutions and professions, and people’s health—organize discussions across case studies of schistosomiasis, tuberculosis, mental health, and tobacco and health. Among the book’s significant conclusions are the importance of barefoot doctors in disseminating western medicine; the improvements in medical health and services during the long Sino-Japanese war; and the important role of the Chinese consumer. This is a thought-provoking read for health practitioners, historians, and others interested in the history of medicine and health in China.

Author : Douglas Besharov,Karen Baehler
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199990313

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Chinese Social Policy in a Time of Transition by Douglas Besharov,Karen Baehler Pdf

Examines the consolidation of Chinese social policy, partly as a result of economic liberalization and expansion.

Author : Sabrina Ching Yuen Luk
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781315516288

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Financing Healthcare in China by Sabrina Ching Yuen Luk Pdf

China’s current social medical insurance system has nominally covered more than 95 per cent of 1.4 billion population in China and is moving towards the ambitious goal of universal health insurance coverage. Challenges posed by a rapidly ageing population, an inherently discriminatory design of the health insurance system, the disorder of drug distribution system and an immature legal system constrain the Chinese government from realizing its goal of universal health insurance coverage in the long run. This book uses a refined version of historical institutionalism to critically examine China's pathway to universal health insurance coverage since the mid-1980s. It pays crucial attention to the processes of transforming China's healthcare financing system into the basic social medical insurance system alongside rapid socio-economic changes. Financing Healthcare in China will interest researchers and government and think-tank officials interested in the state of healthcare reforms in China. Healthcare specialists outside of East Asia may also be interested in its general study of healthcare in developing countries. Scholars and students interested in the healthcare field will also find this useful.

Author : Jingqing Yang
Publisher : Springer
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811021107

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Informal Payments and Regulations in China's Healthcare System by Jingqing Yang Pdf

This text addresses the key issue of informal payments, or ‘red packets’, in the Chinese Healthcare system. It considers how transactions take place at the clinical level as well as their regulation. Analysing the practice from the perspectives of institutions and power structure, it examines how institutional changes in the pre-reform and reform era have changed the power structure between medical professions, patients and the Party-state, and how these changes have given rise and perpetuate the practice. Drawing from qualitative data from interviews of medical professionals, the author recognises the medical profession as a major player in the health care system and presents their perception of the practice as the taker of ‘red packets’ and their interactions with the patient and the state surrounding the illegal practice in an authoritarian power structure. The books considers the institutional reasons that motivate doctors to take, patients to give, and the government to "tolerate" red packets, arguing that the bureaucratization of the medical profession, society of acquaintances and shortage of quality of medical services jointly create an institutional setting that has given rise to these informal payments. Contributing to a rounded understanding of the problems of healthcare reform in China, this book is a key read for all scholars interested in the issue of informal payments and healthcare politics in transition economies.