Thanks to the reforms of the last two decades and more, China＇s health care resources have multiplied. Medical technologies, capacity, and proficiency have improved following the growth of human resources, increase i...Thanks to the reforms of the last two decades and more, China＇s health care resources have multiplied. Medical technologies, capacity, and proficiency have improved following the growth of human resources, increase in hardware input and greater opening up to the outside world. In the meantime, health care policies have undergone several reforms. Still, in the rating by WHO of public health systems of the 191 UN member nations in 2000, the overall stares of China＇s health care and sanitation was ranked 144^th. In terms of the equitable financing of national health care, China stood the last but three of all the 191 member nations, preceding only Brazil, Burma and Sierra Leone.展开更多
The contributors to this special issue, ＂Reform of the Public Health Care System in China： Challenges and Responses,＂ come from varying organizations -- from academic institutions to policy research institutes -- w...The contributors to this special issue, ＂Reform of the Public Health Care System in China： Challenges and Responses,＂ come from varying organizations -- from academic institutions to policy research institutes -- with varying research backgrounds -- from health policy research to social policy research and sociology, and to agricultural economics. They have observed the public health care system and express their views from different perspectives： Gong Sen from the perspective of health resource allocation, Li Weiping from the perspective of public hospital reform, Sun Bingyao from the perspective of public health and community health services, Zhang Linxiu and Yan Yuanyuan from the perspective of the new rural cooperative medical scheme, Yang Tuan and Shi Yuxiao from the perspective of health governance and regulation, and Xu Yuebin and Zhang Xiulan from the perspective of the institutional reform of health care. We hope these articles may present to our readers a dynamic picture of studies in China＇s health system reform.展开更多
文摘Thanks to the reforms of the last two decades and more, China＇s health care resources have multiplied. Medical technologies, capacity, and proficiency have improved following the growth of human resources, increase in hardware input and greater opening up to the outside world. In the meantime, health care policies have undergone several reforms. Still, in the rating by WHO of public health systems of the 191 UN member nations in 2000, the overall stares of China＇s health care and sanitation was ranked 144^th. In terms of the equitable financing of national health care, China stood the last but three of all the 191 member nations, preceding only Brazil, Burma and Sierra Leone.
文摘The contributors to this special issue, ＂Reform of the Public Health Care System in China： Challenges and Responses,＂ come from varying organizations -- from academic institutions to policy research institutes -- with varying research backgrounds -- from health policy research to social policy research and sociology, and to agricultural economics. They have observed the public health care system and express their views from different perspectives： Gong Sen from the perspective of health resource allocation, Li Weiping from the perspective of public hospital reform, Sun Bingyao from the perspective of public health and community health services, Zhang Linxiu and Yan Yuanyuan from the perspective of the new rural cooperative medical scheme, Yang Tuan and Shi Yuxiao from the perspective of health governance and regulation, and Xu Yuebin and Zhang Xiulan from the perspective of the institutional reform of health care. We hope these articles may present to our readers a dynamic picture of studies in China＇s health system reform.
