The Chinese Health System in Transition

• Main Author: Fang, Lijie (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Research Series on the Chinese Dream and China's Development Path,
• Subjects: Social medicine.; Health care management.; Health services administration.; Social policy.; Medical Sociology.; Health Care Management.; Social Policy.

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 introduce...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: an analysis framework of health system in transition
• The history of health system of China (1949-2008)
• The context of the new healthcare reform of China
• Health risks and healthcare demands in current China
• The blueprint and development of the new healthcare reform of China
• The health financing reform
• The reform of primary care
• The reform of public hospital
• The construction of long-term care scheme
• The agenda-setting of health policy: a case study of NCMS
• Conclusion: how to understand the health system of China.