Health Policy Reform In China: A Comparative Perspective

by Jiwei Qian, Ake G Blomqvist

Overview

Most of the existing literature on health system reform in China deals with only one part of the reform process (for example, financing reform in rural areas, or the new system of purchasing pharmaceuticals), or consists of empirical case studies from particular cities or regions. This book gives a broad overview of the process of health system reform in China. It draws extensively both on the Western literature in health economics and on the experience of health care reform in a number of other countries, including the US, UK, Holland, and Japan, and compares China's approach to health care reform with other countries. It also places the process of health system reform in the context of re-orienting China's economic policy to place greater emphasis on equity and income distribution, and analyzes the interaction of the central and local governments in designing and implementing the reforms. This book will be of interest to policymakers, academics, students of health economics, health policy and health administration, and people who are interested in Chinese social policy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789814425889
Publisher:	World Scientific Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date:	09/15/2014
Series:	Series On Contemporary China , #36
Pages:	364
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.00(d)

Table of Contents

About the Authors v

Part I Introduction 1

Chapter 1 Health Policy in China: Introduction and Background 3

Chapter 2 Health Systems and Health Reform: International Models 25

Part II Main Components of Health Reform 65

Chapter 3 Strengthening China's Social Insurance System 67

Chapter 4 Providing Primary Care 107

Chapter 5 The Hospital Sector and Hospital Reform 141

Chapter 6 China's National Drug Policy: A Work in Progress 183

Part III Health Care and Harmonious Development in China 213

Chapter 7 Health Policy and Inequality 215

Chapter 8 Decentralized Government, Central-Local Fiscal Relations, and Health Reform 243

Part IV China's Health System in the Future 267

Chapter 9 Health Services in the Future: Social Insurance and Purchasing 269

Chapter 10 China's Future Health Care System: A Mixed Public-Private Model? 307

References 337

Index 347