Financing Healthcare in China: Towards universal health insurance

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Sabrina Ching Yuen Luk (National Technological University of Singapore, Singapore)

Financing Healthcare in China

Towards universal health insurance

Sabrina Ching Yuen Luk (National Technological University of Singapore, Singapore)

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English

Routledge
23 September 2019

Development economics; Insurance & actuarial studies; Health systems & services

Series: Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Health and Illness

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 constrain the Chinese government from realizing its goal of universal health insurance coverage in the long run.

This book uses a refined version of historical institutionalism to critically examine China's pathway to universal health insurance coverage since the mid-1980s. It pays crucial attention to the processes of transforming China's healthcare financing system into the basic social medical insurance system alongside rapid socio-economic changes.

Financing Healthcare in China will interest researchers and government and think-tank officials interested in the state of healthcare reforms in China. Healthcare specialists outside of East Asia may also be interested in its general study of healthcare in developing countries. Scholars and students interested in the healthcare field will also find this useful.

By: Sabrina Ching Yuen Luk (National Technological University of Singapore Singapore)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9780367374631
ISBN 10: 0367374633
Series: Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Health and Illness
Pages: 138
Publication Date: 23 September 2019
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

Sabrina Ching Yuen Luk is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Management and Economics, Kunming University of Science and Technology, China.