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Author : Ching Yuen Luk
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 563 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (911 download)
Download or read book Health Insurance Reform in Shanghai and Hong Kong written by Ching Yuen Luk and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sabrina Ching Yuen Luk
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317748638
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)
Download or read book Health Insurance Reforms in Asia written by Sabrina Ching Yuen Luk and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-03-26 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book empirically examines health care financing reforms and popular responses in three major cities in East Asia: Shanghai, Singapore, and Hong Kong. It adopts a new revised version of the theory of historical institutionalism to compare and explain the divergent reform paths in these three places over the past three decades. It also examines forces that propel institutional change. The book provides three detailed case studies on the development of health care financing reforms and the politics of implementing them. It shows that health care systems in Shanghai, Singapore, and Hong Kong were the products of Western presence in the nineteenth century. It illustrates how greater attention is paid to the roles played by ideas, actors, and environmental triggers without abandoning the core assumptions that political institutions and policy feedback remain central to impact health care financing reforms. It shows that health care financing reform is shaped by a complex interplay of forces over time. It also provides the most updated material about health care financing reforms in Shanghai, Singapore, and Hong Kong. The central argument of this book is that health care financing reform is both an evolving process responding to changing circumstances and a political process revealing an intricate interplay of power relationships and diverse interests. It shows that institutional changes in health care financing system can be incremental but transformative in nature. It argues that social policies will continue to develop and welfare states will continue to adapt and evolve in order to cope with new risks and needs. This book sheds new lights on understanding the politics of health care financing reform and sources and modes of institutional change.
Author : Chack-kie Wong
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739113509
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (135 download)
Download or read book China's Urban Health Care Reform written by Chack-kie Wong and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors find that economic growth does not automatically improve health care, and that prioritizing health care as China has done does not necessarily lead to cost efficiency and equity in health care for the whole nation.
Author : Carine Milcent
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319697366
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)
Download or read book Healthcare Reform in China written by Carine Milcent and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-02-14 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How efficient is the Chinese healthcare system? Milcent examines the medication market in China against the global picture of healthcare organization, and how public healthcare insurance plans have been implemented in recent years, as well as reforms to tackle hospital inefficiency. Healthcare reforms, demographic changes and an increase in wealth inequity have altered healthcare preferences, which need to be addressed. Significantly, the patient–medical staff relationship is analysed, with new proposals for different lines of communication. Milcent puts forward digital healthcare in China as a tool to solve inefficiency and rising tensions, and generate profit. Where China is leading in the digitalization of healthcare, other countries can learn important lessons. Chinese social models are also put into context with respect to current reforms and experimentation.
Author : Lawton Robert Burns
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316738396
Total Pages : 744 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (167 download)
Download or read book China's Healthcare System and Reform written by Lawton Robert Burns and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a comprehensive review of China's healthcare system and policy reforms in the context of the global economy. Following a value-chain framework, the 16 chapters cover the payers, the providers, and the producers (manufacturers) in China's system. It also provides a detailed analysis of the historical development of China's healthcare system, the current state of its broad reforms, and the uneasy balance between China's market-driven approach and governmental regulation. Most importantly, it devotes considerable attention to the major problems confronting China, including chronic illness, public health, and long-term care and economic security for the elderly. Burns and Liu have assembled the latest research from leading health economists and political scientists, as well as senior public health officials and corporate executives, making this book an essential read for industry professionals, policymakers, researchers, and students studying comparative health systems across the world.
Author : Mengyu Xie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781361204764
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Reform of Health Care System in Urban China written by Mengyu Xie and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation, "Reform of Health Care System in Urban China: a Case Study in Shanghai" by Mengyu, Xie, 謝孟渝, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. Abstract: Abstract Abstract of thesis entitled Reform of Health Care System in Urban China: A Case Study in Shanghai Submitted by Xie Mengyu for the degree of Master of Philosophy at the University of Hong Kong in February, 2005 Since early 1980s, the Chinese health care system has encountered great challenges. The challenges come with the economic reform and the health care expenditure keeps rising. Because of the demographic changes, the increase of the elderly population in particular, the demand of health care has greatly increased as well. In addition, the decentralization and privatization of the health care system have led to inequity of the accessibility to health care among different groups of people and different regions, and also to the competition among different health care providers. This study aims to explore the current problems in Chinese health care system through ia case study in Shanghai. The case study constitutes of document analysis, review of research literature, and in-depth interviews with medical insurance bureau officials and medical practitioners. It aims at scrutinizing how the health care policy in China is designed and implemented, and how the government departments liaison with concerned organizations in the implementation process. After identifying the strengths and weaknesses of current Chinese health care system, this study also reviews the health care reforms in Australia and Canada. For similar problems had been encountered and resolved in Australia and Canada before and, as two developed countries, their experiences can suggest some lessons that China can learn from . The research findings indicate that the current Chinese health care system has three major problems. Firstly, the government has excessively decentralized the responsibility of health care but invested too little in the system. Secondly, the public sectors have taken up the lion's share of health care provision in urban area and there is little competition in the Chinese health care market. Thirdly, there exists a great gap between the rich and poor in terms of the accessibility to health care. Finally, based on the analysis of different health care systems investigated above, this study concludes by making recommendations for the future reform of Chinese health care system. Implications for research, policy and practice are also presented. (327 words) ii DOI: 10.5353/th_b3136525 Subjects: Medical care - China - Shanghai
Author : Mengyu Xie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (62 download)
Download or read book Reform of Health Care System in Urban China written by Mengyu Xie and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jiwei Qian
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814425893
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (144 download)
Download or read book Health Policy Reform in China written by Jiwei Qian and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2014 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Sample Chapter(s). Chapter 1: Health Policy in China: Introduction and Background (189 KB). Contents: Introduction: Health Policy in China: Introduction and Background; Health Systems and Health Reform: International Models; Main Components of Health Reform: Strengthening China''s Social Insurance System; Providing Primary Care; The Hospital Sector and Hospital Reform; China''s National Drug Policy: A Work in Progress; Health Care and Harmonious Development in China: Health Policy and Inequality; Decentralized Government, Central-Local Fiscal Relations, and Health Reform; China''s Health System in the Future: Health Services in the Future: Social Insurance and Purchasing; China''s Future Health Care System: A Mixed Public-Private Model?. Readership: Policy makers, academics, students of health economics, health policy, and health administration, and people who are interested in Chinese social policy.
Author : Lijie Fang
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 981130758X
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (113 download)
Download or read book The Chinese Health System in Transition written by Lijie Fang and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-11-11 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 introduced. The book subsequently analyzes the social and economic context in which the health system is embedded. 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.
Author : Linda Wong
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315498006
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)
Download or read book Social Policy Reform in Hong Kong and Shanghai: A Tale of Two Cities written by Linda Wong and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-22 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the richest cities in the world's most populous nation, Hong Kong and Shanghai have recently experienced dynamic growth spurred by more and better-managed capital. These cities also have social problems whose solutions will cost money. Their urban populations are aging. Health finance at the level these "First World" cities demand threatens to consume a large portion of the municipal budgets. Eldercare and social security are now less well covered by traditional Chinese families. Education has become more complex and public tuition, where it occurs, brings with it official plans for schools. Immigrants have flocked to Shanghai from inland China, and Hong Kong's border has become a protector of the former colony's high productivity jobs. Housing problems also have deeply affected both cities, albeit in somewhat different ways. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the similarities and differences between social policies in the two cities. Each chapter covers a different issue: health finance, housing, education, labor, poverty and social security, eldercare, and migration and competitiveness. The contributors explore pertinent developments in each city and analyze the similarities and differences between the two cities' approaches to social policies. They focus on policy reform and the interface between social policy and its environment. One main theme throughout the book is the extent to which spending for capital accumulation is in conflict with spending for social policies.
Author : Sabrina Ching Yuen Luk
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315516276
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (155 download)
Download or read book Financing Healthcare in China written by Sabrina Ching Yuen Luk and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-22 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China’s current social medical insurance system has nominally covered more than 95 per cent of 1.4 billion population in China and is moving towards the ambitious goal of universal health insurance coverage. Challenges posed by a rapidly ageing population, an inherently discriminatory design of the health insurance system, the disorder of drug distribution system and an immature legal system constrain the Chinese government from realizing its goal of universal health insurance coverage in the long run. This book uses a refined version of historical institutionalism to critically examine China's pathway to universal health insurance coverage since the mid-1980s. It pays crucial attention to the processes of transforming China's healthcare financing system into the basic social medical insurance system alongside rapid socio-economic changes. Financing Healthcare in China will interest researchers and government and think-tank officials interested in the state of healthcare reforms in China. Healthcare specialists outside of East Asia may also be interested in its general study of healthcare in developing countries. Scholars and students interested in the healthcare field will also find this useful.
Author : Victor C. W. Wong
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789628804115
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Reform of Health Insurance System in Urban China written by Victor C. W. Wong and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : The World Bank;World Health Organization
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 146481323X
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (648 download)
Download or read book Healthy China: Deepening Health Reform in China written by The World Bank;World Health Organization and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2019-04-04 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The report recommends that China maintain the goal and direction of its healthcare reform, and continue the shift from its current hospital-centric model that rewards volume and sales, to one that is centered on primary care, focused on improving the quality of basic health services, and delivers high-quality, cost-effective health services. With 20 commissioned background studies, more than 30 case studies, visits to 21 provinces in China, the report proposes practical, concrete steps toward a value-based integrated service model of healthcare financing and delivery, including: 1) Creating a new model of people-centered quality integrated health care that strengthens primary care as the core of the health system. This new care model is organized around the health needs of individuals and families and is integrated with higher level care and social services. 2) Continuously improve health care quality, establish an effective coordination mechanism, and actively engage all stakeholders and professional bodies to oversee improvements in quality and performance. 3) Empowering patients with knowledge and understanding of health services, so that there is more trust in the system and patients are actively engaged in their healthcare decisions. 4) Reforming public hospitals, so that they focus on complicated cases and delegate routine care to primary-care providers. 5) Changing incentives for providers, so they are rewarded for good patient health outcomes instead of the number of medical procedures used or drugs sold. 6) Boosting the status of the health workforce, especially primary-care providers, so they are better paid and supported to ensure a competent health workforce aligned with the new delivery system. 7) Allowing qualified private health providers to deliver cost-effective services and compete on a level playing field with the public sector, with the right regulatory oversight, and 8) Prioritizing public investments according to the burden of disease, where people live, and the kind of care people need on a daily basis.
Author : Hong Sheng
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9811227195
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)
Download or read book A Theoretical Analysis, Performance Evaluation, And Reform Solution Of The Health Care System In China written by Hong Sheng and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medical expenditure has become a heavy burden on the public sector and the family system in many countries. Expanding the coverage and reimbursement of medical insurance has become a common way to reduce the burden. This book will elaborate on how medical insurance may increase the burden instead.It explains why the existing medical insurance system results in increased medical costs, where higher costs may offset the benefits of certainty brought by medical insurance, forming the 'paradox of medical care insurance'. This assumption is verified by empirical evidence in China, through a new method developed to find out the actual medical costs, using two parameters: ratio of self-payment of medical insurance and the level of monopoly in the supply of medical services. The book also describes the history, the current situation, and the reform of the health care system in China.
Author : Liming Lu
Publisher : Open Dissertation Press
ISBN 13 : 9781361020456
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (24 download)
Download or read book HEALTH INSURANCE & ITS IMPACT written by Liming Lu and published by Open Dissertation Press. This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation, "Health Insurance and Its Impact on Access to Health Care in China" by Liming, Lu, 卢立铭, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. Abstract: Background The transition to a market-oriented economy in China has created huge economic growth in the recent two decades. However, the health care system was transformed to the one that residents cannot afford health care services and some households are driven to poverty. This is mainly because of the rapid medical expense inflation and imbalanced health resources. The health insurance schemes, on the other hand, contribute to the accessible health care and financial part of individuals' out-of-pocket spending. The promotion of health insurance coverage, with strong association on access to health care, is crucial to utilization of health services under the current health care system. Methods This systematic review was conducted by electronic database searching PubMed, Google Scholar and CNKI published in recent 15 years. The keywords of "health insurance" OR "insurance scheme" AND "access to health care" OR "health care utilization" AND "urban China" OR "rural China" were used. 12 observational studies were identified and included in the systematic review. The STROBE Guideline was adopted for the quality assessment among these studies. Results Of the12 observational studies included in the systematic review, these studies were mainly focusing on New Cooperative Medical Scheme (NCMS) and Urban Resident Basic Medical Insurance (URBMI) Scheme and the relation with access to health care in recent decade in China. Household survey-based designs were the most commonly used method. Based on the results conducted in the studies, a preliminary outcome showed that health insurance enrollees had a positive effect on health care utilization. Both the NCMS and URBMI schemes have increased the utilization in health care, with different percentage, and the accessibility because of financial assistant and subsidization. Conclusion The health insurance schemes, both for NCMS and URBMI, have increased inpatient and outpatient utilization. Additionally, the schemes have reduced the cost of delivery, but it does not reduce the out-of-pocket payments on seeking health care in some regions. Lastly, policy implications and recommendations were made on the demand and supply sides in health care, as well as the financial protection regarding to the schemes. Overall, the health insurance schemes have made a remarkable achievement, but a lot more remains to be improved in the health care reform. Subjects: Health insurance - China Medical care - China
Author : China Development Research Foundation
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000051862
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book China's Commercial Health Insurance written by China Development Research Foundation and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the financing of China’s health system, argues that present arrangements are not adequate and proposes an increased role for commercial health insurance as a way of overcoming the difficulties. Highlighting that China’s present social medical insurance system can only cover basic medical services, with the results that many Chinese people with higher income are going abroad for high-quality medical services and that doctors are not bringing in the salaries and obtaining the social status they expect, the book suggests that commercial health insurance offers a possible solution, in that it can help meet the demand of higher-income groups for better healthcare services while at the same time increasing the income of more competent medical professionals. The book goes on to consider the current state of China’s commercial insurance industry, outlining the various challenges that the industry needs to overcome if it is to fulfil an increased role, challenges such as greater specialization, increased capacity, structural reform, improved regulation and closer integration with China’s medical reform programme.
Author : Victor C.W. Wong
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429808372
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)
Download or read book The Political Economy of Health Care Development and Reforms in Hong Kong written by Victor C.W. Wong and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-23 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1999, this book constitutes a unique account of the development and reform of health care in Hong Kong. Its main focus is on policy developments since 1945. Victor Wong demonstrates the development of a two-tier health system in both a capitalist and Chinese context. His work is one of both health policy and political economy. Wong utilises the latter perspective to show the state’s role in the interests of capital, the public demand for health care and the power of the medical profession. Alongside this, Wong brings in the role of Chinese and family medicine and the role of the family in cost containment and minimising the hospitalisation of elderly, frail and chronically ill patients. The volume is the most comprehensive analysis available for health policy in Hong Kong.
