From A National, Centrally Planned Health System To A System Based On The Market: Lessons From China

No other country has undergone health care reforms as dramatic as China's. Starting in 1978, China reformed its health system from a governmental, centrally planned, and universal system to a heavily market-based one. Now, three decades later, the Chinese government openly acknowledges that the...

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Published in:	Health Affairs Vol. 27; no. 4; pp. 937 - 948
Main Authors:	Ma, Jin, Lu, Mingshan, Quan, Hude
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States Health Affairs 01.07.2008 The People to People Health Foundation, Inc., Project HOPE
Subjects:	Agricultural production China China (People's Republic) Clinical outcomes Cost control Delivery of Health Care - history Delivery of Health Care - organization & administration Delivery of Health Care - trends Economic reform Employees Health care Health care access Health care delivery Health care policy Health Care Reform - economics Health Care Reform - history Health Care Reform - trends Health Care Sector - history Health Care Sector - organization & administration Health Care Sector - trends Health Expenditures - trends Health insurance Health policy Health services Health Services Accessibility - trends Health status History, 20th Century History, 21st Century Hospitals Humans Insurance Coverage - trends Insurance, Health - economics Insurance, Health - history Insurance, Health - trends Markets Medical equipment Physicians Preventive medicine Privatization - economics Privatization - history Privatization - trends Profits Public health Quality of Health Care Reforms Research centers Rural areas Traditional Chinese medicine China
ISSN:	0278-2715, 2694-233X, 1544-5208, 2694-233X
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