Health System Reform in China 6 Reform of how health care is paid for in China: challenges and opportunities

Hu, S. L., Tang, Shenglan, Liu, Y. L., Zhao, Y. X., Escobar, M. L. and de Ferranti, D. (2008) 'Health System Reform in China 6 Reform of how health care is paid for in China: challenges and opportunities'. Lancet, Vol 372, Issue 9652, pp. 1846-1853.

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Abstract

China's current strategy to improve how health services are paid for is headed in the right direction, but much more remains to be done. The problems to be resolved, reflecting the setbacks of recent decades, are substantial: high levels of out-of-pocket payments and cost escalation, stalled progress in providing adequate health insurance for all, widespread inefficiencies in health facilities, uneven quality, extensive inequality, and perverse incentives for hospitals and doctors. China's leadership is taking bold steps to accelerate improvement, including increasing government spending on health and committing to reaching 100% insurance coverage by 2010. China's efforts are part of a worldwide transformation in the financing of health care that will dominate global health in the 21st century. The prospects that China will complete this transformation successfully in the next two decades are good, although success is not guaranteed. The real test, as other countries have experienced, will come when tougher reforms have to be introduced.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	universal coverage mexico lessons
Subjects:	WA Public Health > WA 30 Socioeconomic factors in public health (General) WB Practice of Medicine > Medical Climatology > WB 710 Diseases of geographic areas WA Public Health > WA 20.5 Research (General) WA Public Health > Health Problems of Special Population Groups > WA 395 Health in developing countries
Digital Object Identifer (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(08)61368-9
Depositing User:	Faye Moody
Date Deposited:	15 Jul 2010 14:53
Last Modified:	07 Jun 2022 11:09
URI:	https://archive.lstmed.ac.uk/id/eprint/813

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