Re-Engineering Affordable Care Policy in China - Is Marketization a Solution?

Presenting a comprehensive examination of China's medical care system, this book tackles issues of policymaking, organization, management and financing in the context of the provision of affordable care in China. Making use of extensive field investigations, it examines the re-structuring of the medical care system, from 1979 to the present day.

List of contents

Part I Issues and Concepts 1. Introduction 2. Repackaging of Health Care Services and Paths to Reform Part II Rebuilding the State in the Health Care Sector 3. Institutional Framework and Managerial Mechanisms 4. Financing Medical Care Services 5. Re-inventing Medical Care Insurances 6. Price Control Amid the Rise of Regulated Market Part III Re-making China’s Medical Care Delivery 7. Learning from the Enterprise Style of Management 8. Franchise Provision of Medical Care Services 9. Drug Franchise and Financial Management 10. Regulatory Controls in Expanding Drug Markets Part IV Conclusion 11. Review and Assessment

About the author

Peter Nan-shong Lee is Professor Emeritus at the Department of Political Science at National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan.

Summary

Presenting a comprehensive examination of China’s medical care system, this book tackles issues of policymaking, organization, management and financing in the context of the provision of affordable care in China. Making use of extensive field investigations, it examines the re-structuring of the medical care system, from 1979 to the present day.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Nan-shong Lee, Peter Nan-Shong (National Chung Cheng Univers Lee
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2019
• EAN: 9781138542365
• ISBN: 978-1-138-54236-5
• No. of pages: 270
• Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series; Routledge Contemporary China Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; China, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, MEDICAL / Health Policy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, Health systems & services, Health systems and services, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General