1st Edition

China's New Public Health Insurance Challenges to Health Reforms and the New Rural Co-operative Medical System

By Armin Müller Copyright 2017
222 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

222 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

222 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Especially since the 2003 SARS crisis, China’s healthcare system has become a growing source of concern, both for citizens and the Chinese government.  China’s once praised public health services have deteriorated into a system driven by economic constraints, in which poor people often fail to get access, and middle-income households risk to be dragged into poverty by the rising costs of care.... Read more

  1. Introduction
  2. Systemic Interdependence and Institutional Change in the Health System of Post-Mao China
  3. Contested Policy: The Two Attempts to Rebuild the CMS
  4. The Enactment and Implementation of the NRCMS System
  5. Designing the NRCMS in a Local Context
  6. Operating the NRCMS in a Context of Misfit Institutions
  7. Health Insurance and the New Health Reform
  8. Conclusion

Biography

Armin Müller is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Georg-August-University in Göttingen, Germany.