Understanding healthcare in China
This is a selection of resources on understanding China’s healthcare system available from the NLB catalogue or the Internet and is not meant to be an exhaustive list.
NLB print and digital resources
Re-engineering affordable care policy in China: Is marketization a solution?
This book offers a comprehensive look into China’s medical care system spanning more than three decades to the present day, and discusses the constraints in Chinese policies for providing affordable healthcare for the masses due to economic reasons.
All rights reserved, London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019
Healthcare quality and HIT: International standards, China practices
Read case studies from a variety of university-affiliated and specialist hospitals in China to find out how these hospitals have been adopting international healthcare standards and adapted them for China’s conditions. This volume is edited by Jilan Liu, MD, MHA, who has over 30 years of experience in healthcare and an equivalent number of years in the management of a spectrum of healthcare delivery and financing systems.
All rights reserved, New York: Productivity Press, 2019
Quality of care in large Chinese hospitals: An observational study
This journal paper analyses the quality of hospital care in China for major medical conditions such as stroke and pneumonia over a five-year period from October 2012 to March 2018. During the same period, the Chinese government had increased investments in healthcare. Comparisons are also made against similar hospitals in the US to evaluate the performance of China’s hospitals.
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10 years of health-care reform in China: Progress and gaps in Universal Health Coverage
Over the last decade, the Chinese government has initiated a major health care reform involving the expansion of social health insurance for all, strengthening infrastructure, reforming the health-care delivery system and revamping its hospital-centric and treatment-based delivery system. Nonetheless, gaps can still be found in the quality of care, control of health expenditure and public satisfaction.
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Medical transitions in twentieth-century China
This volume documents the history of modern medicine in China and changes to its public health system in the 20th century. Featuring scholarship from China, Australia, Taiwan, Germany, Canada and the United States, topics addressed in this book include changing patterns of diseases and longevity, tuberculosis control in Shanghai, the institutionalisation of Chinese medicine, and the development of modern nursing.
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China’s healthcare system and reform
With contributions from health economists, political scientists, public health officials and corporate executives, this book looks at China’s healthcare system and its major reforms; the tussle between government regulation and free market forces; and the key health issues currently faced by China, such as chronic illness, public health and economic security for the elderly.
All rights reserved, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2017
Public health and the modernisation of China, 1865-2015
The author discusses how China’s public health system has developed in tandem with the nation’s economic progress, and explores how upheavals in China’s social and political climates have impacted public health systems, programmes, institutions and medical practices over the last century.
All rights reserved, Abingdon: Routledge, 2017.
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Why China can provide 1.4 billion people with healthcare coverage
The Chinese government prioritises public health in the country’s development strategy to tackle the challenges posed by medical insurance. Watch the video to find out how China provides its 1.4 billion people with healthcare coverage.
The development and reform of public health in China from 1949 to 2019
Presenting findings from survey data, interviews and reviews, this open access paper provides a retrospective assessment of seven decades of public health development in China from 1949 to 2019. While China has implemented the National Basic Public Health Service Program (NBPHSP), challenges including service quality and lack of quality professionals still exist.
Investment opportunities in China’s healthcare sector after COVID-19
A surge in investments in China’s healthcare market is expected following the coronavirus outbreak. This article looks into the factors that make China’s healthcare sector a priority investment area in the next decade as well as identify some of the potential business opportunities available in the sector.
How the coronavirus is helping to fix China’s broken healthcare system
China’s overburdened healthcare system is seeing a positive change as people are increasingly turning to telehealth or online consultation as an alternative in the wake of the coronavirus. The trend is expected to last even after the crisis subsides as people embrace this mode of medical consultation due the convenience and benefits they experience.
China’s “barefoot” doctors
This video looks at the “barefoot” doctors’ network established in rural China during Mao Zedong’s era. Working alongside farmers, these non-medically trained doctors, or village doctors, provide basic health care to fellow villagers even up to today, despite the abolishment of the barefoot doctor programme during economic reforms that took place during the 1980s.
Source: CNBC International
Healthcare for all by 2020: China looks to healthcare companies for a healthier nation
As part of the “Healthy China 2030” plan launched in October 2016, China aims to make basic healthcare accessible to all citizens by 2020. To achieve this, the Chinese government has proposed simplifying testing procedures for imported drugs so as to reduce the cost and time taken for these drugs to be made available on the market.
China’s dire need to reform health care sector seen as opportunity for private hospitals
According to analysts, China’s public healthcare system –which has to cope with an increasing number of diseases related to ageing and pollution – is severely in need of reform, and this is where the private hospital sector can come in to help ease the heavy workload of public hospitals. Policies, such as reducing the red tape for setting up private hospitals and allowing these hospitals to determine their own medical fees, could incentivise the setting up of more of such private hospitals.
Last updated on Oct 2020