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Informal Payments and Regulations in China's Healthcare System

Red Packets and Institutional Reform

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  1. Jingqing Yang

    1. School of International Studies, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

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  • Considers the rise, prevalence and regulation of the issue of informal payments in Chinese healthcare from 1949 to the present day
  • Puts the medical profession at the forefront of the debate on healthcare reform in China
  • Offers a widely relevant contribution to a key debate on healthcare in transition economies

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • Jingqing Yang
    Pages 1-27

  3. Socialist Medicine and Theories of Informal Payments

    • Jingqing Yang
    Pages 29-65

  4. Institutional Changes and the Power of Chinese Medical Professionals

    • z Yang
    Pages 67-131

  5. Health Reform and the Rise of Informal Payments After 1978

    • Jingqing Yang
    Pages 133-185

  6. Transactions of Red Packets in the Hospital

    • Jingqing Yang
    Pages 187-237

  7. Rein in Red Packets

    • Jingqing Yang
    Pages 239-273

  8. Conclusion

    • Jingqing Yang
    Pages 275-279

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 281-287
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About this book

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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • School of International Studies, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Jingqing Yang

About the author

Dr Jingqing Yang is a Senior Lecturer in China Studies at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. His research interests cover sociology of medicine, social history of Chinese healthcare system and medical professions, and China’s health reforms. 



Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Informal Payments and Regulations in China's Healthcare System

  • Book Subtitle: Red Packets and Institutional Reform

  • Authors: Jingqing Yang

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2110-7

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-2109-1Published: 15 December 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-9529-0Published: 30 April 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-2110-7Published: 26 November 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 287

  • Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Medical Sociology, Social Policy, Health Care Management, Asian Economics, Health Administration

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