Overview
- Presents an essential overview of the new healthcare reform in China, which was initiated in 2009
- Analyzes the context of the healthcare reform
- Evaluates the new healthcare reform and predicts its future development
Part of the book series: Research Series on the Chinese Dream and China’s Development Path (RSCDCDP)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Background to China’s Healthcare System Transformation
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Healthcare System Transformation amid Market-oriented Reform (1980–2008)
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China’s New Healthcare Reform (2009–)
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About this book
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.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Her research is mainly focused on health policy, elderly service, community development, and welfare regime. She’s the author of Annual Health Report of China, which is a regular chapter of The Blue Book of China’s Society, in the past four years (2012-2015).
She has beena consultant in the departments of Ministry of Health and Ministry of Civil Affairs of the Central Government in China. She is currently conducting, at the request of the local government, some pilot projects on local innovation of social policy.
She is a co-organizer of a comparative study network "Social Policy in Greater China", which is composed of seven universities and institutes from mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong; as well as an initiator and organizer of the China Alliance of Local Innovation, in which 8 county governments of China, their social organization partners, and many researchers are working together to improve the local innovation of social policy. She is also the co-director of the "Social Policy Review", a by-annual book series of China.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Chinese Health System in Transition
Authors: Lijie Fang
Series Title: Research Series on the Chinese Dream and China’s Development Path
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0758-4
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Social Sciences Academic Press and Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-0757-7Published: 23 November 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-0758-4Published: 11 November 2018
Series ISSN: 2363-6866
Series E-ISSN: 2363-6874
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 161
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: Medical Sociology, Health Care Management, Social Policy