1st Edition
Financing Healthcare in China Towards universal health insurance
By S. C. Y. Luk
Copyright 2017
138 Pages
by
Routledge
150 Pages
by
Routledge
150 Pages
by
Routledge
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China’s current social medical insurance system has nominally covered more than 95 per cent of 1.4 billion population in China and is moving towards the ambitious goal of universal health insurance coverage. Challenges posed by a rapidly ageing population, an inherently discriminatory design of the health insurance system, the disorder of drug distribution system and an immature legal system... Read more
1. Achieving Universal Health Coverage through a Multi-layered Social Health Insurance System
2. Population Ageing and Epidemiologic Transitions in China
3. Healthcare System in the Pre-reform Era
4. Four Phases of Health Insurance Reform
5. A Multi-layered Health Insurance System: Composition, Models, and Characteristics
6. Problems in the Current Multi-layered Social Health Insurance System
7. Ways to Ensure the Financial Sustainability of Health Insurance Systems
Biography
Sabrina Ching Yuen Luk is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Management and Economics, Kunming University of Science and Technology, China.
