China's Urban Health Care Reform
From State Protection to Individual Responsibility- Authors:
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- 2005
Summary
One way to describe the importance of social policy is to say it's about 'what is and what might be.' This ethos is the driving force behind Chack-Kie Wong, Vai Io Lo, and Kwong-leung Tang's China's Urban Health Care Reform. Based on a study of a mid-level city in China, these three scholars provide analysis and offer theory-based recommendations on health care development. Using a comparative policy framework, supported by a legal expert's knowledge of regulatory specifications, China's Urban Health Care Reform argues that a strategy with priority in economic growth, as in the case of China, does not bring forth cost efficiency and equity in health care for the whole nation. Ultimately, Wong, Lo, and Tang strive to offer direction for health care reform that will lead to better health care in China's cities. As a result, this is a work of great significance to anyone involved in public health, social work, public policy, medicine, or law.
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Bibliographic data
- Copyright year
- 2005
- ISBN-Print
- 978-0-7391-0660-0
- ISBN-Online
- 978-0-7391-5298-0
- Publisher
- Lexington, Lanham
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 177
- Product type
- Book Titles
Table of contents
- Table of Contents No access
- Illustrations No access
- Preface No access
- 1: Introduction No access Pages 1 - 10
- 2: Health Care in China No access Pages 11 - 30
- 3: Health Insurance Reform in China No access Pages 31 - 58
- 4: Theoretical Approaches to Health Care Provision No access Pages 59 - 78
- 5: Health Care Reform and Stakeholders' Opinions in Wuhan No access Pages 79 - 110
- 6: Impact of Health Care Reform No access Pages 111 - 138
- 7: Going Down the Road of Developmentalism: The Future of the Health Care System in China No access Pages 139 - 156
- Appendix: Questionnaire from the Wuhan's Health Care Study 2003 No access Pages 157 - 164
- Bibliography No access Pages 165 - 172
- Index No access Pages 173 - 176
- About the Authors No access Pages 177 - 177





