1st Edition

Health Insurance Reforms in Asia

By Sabrina Ching Yuen Luk Copyright 2014
202 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

216 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

184 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book empirically examines health care financing reforms and popular responses in three major cities in East Asia: Shanghai, Singapore, and Hong Kong. It adopts a new revised version of the theory of historical institutionalism to compare and explain the divergent reform paths in these three places over the past three decades. It also examines forces that propel institutional change.... Read more

1. Analyzing Health Care Financing Reform: A Refined Theory of Historical Institutionalism  2. Debating Health Care Reform  3. Shanghai: The Creation of Foreign Settlements and the Introduction of Novel Ideas about Health and Hygiene  4. Contemporary Shanghai: The Dynamics of Health Insurance Reform  5. Singapore: Building Health Care in a Colonial Settlement  6. Contemporary Singapore: Managing Health Care Finance  7. Hong Kong: Western Ideas in a Chinese City  8. Contemporary Hong Kong: Ongoing Debates about Health Care Finance  9. The Way Forward

Biography

Sabrina Luk is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Management and Economics, Kunming University of Science and Technology. She was awarded her PhD from the Department of Political Science and International Studies, University of Birmingham, and her MPhil and Bachelor of Social Science (First Class Honours) from the Department of Government and Public Administration, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She was the winner of the 2012 Michael O’Rourke PhD Publication Award at the University of Birmingham for her research contributions and publication record. She is also the Highly Commended Award winner of the 2013 Emerald/EFMD Outstanding Doctoral Research Awards in the Healthcare Management category.